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Some interesting things happen here, the queens almost always seem to go first in my games (perhaps because of their freedom of movement they tend to end up in
by joshvm 12y ago
Some interesting things happen here, the queens almost always seem to go first in my games (perhaps because of their freedom of movement they tend to end up in dangerous territory quickly). Also lots of pawn promotions make the mid-end games a lot more fun, although as the promotion is also random I've ended up with unwinnable endgames (e.g. two knights).
I don't play chess beyond knowing the rules, but this is a lot more fun than watching a tournament!
- jrockway 12y agoI do play chess and found watching this rather painful. I guess the next thing to do is instead of random: if you can capture a piece of equal or higher value: do so. This is, of course, not a particularly good chess strategy, but would probably be less painful to watch.
- jerf 12y agoThe random move is chosen by generating all legal moves, then choosing from them. This favors pieces with more legal moves, and thus tends to favor the queen the most. Compare with choosing from all pieces that have a legal move, then choosing a legal move for that piece, which would favor a lot of pawn motion, at least until they got themselves killed.
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- jedunnigan 12y agoTo avoid the pawn favoritism you could first select a category of piece, then a specific piece of that category and then finally select a legal move for the piece in question. I think this would be the most even handed way to make the game more entropic.