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Why did they lose the bishops rather than knights? Seems like if you were simplifying the game for early computers to learn, that's the move (remove the one pie
by polynomial 3y ago
Why did they lose the bishops rather than knights? Seems like if you were simplifying the game for early computers to learn, that's the move (remove the one piece that moves weird.)
- kqr 3y agoBishops have a worst branching factor of 9, while knights have only 8. And this difference is even larger on average; a bishop at b2 can move to 7 places, while the knight on the same location can move to just 4. (This can be thought of dynamically as well. If a bishop moves one space closer to a corner, it loses three potential moves, but gains one move in the opposite corner. If a knight moves closer to a corner, it just loses moves, it never gains them.)
- polynomial 3y agoI like the knight on the edge analogy. Bishops control up to 13 squares, knights up to 8. The math maths. Unless you ask ChatGPT, which will tell you bishops do better in closed positions than knights (before going on to say (correctly) that bishops do better in open positions, without acknowledging or seeming to "notice" it is flatly contradicting itself.