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But who cares if the rules themselves are more elegant if the game they describe is different and worse because of it? It's like you introduced a bug in refact
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y ago
But who cares if the rules themselves are more elegant if the game they describe is different and worse because of it?
It's like you introduced a bug in refactoring and are insisting on the change because the code looks nicer now.
- eru 3y agoYes, you are right that this is only an intellectual exercise. (Btw, it's quite popular in the Go world to reformulate the ancient clunky rules of Go into a more modern, mathematical version that might or might not have small differences in gameplay.) However, I don't actually think that removing check rules make chess worse. But that's subject to experiment. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04374.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04374.pdf for exactly such experiments.