mikk_w

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by mikk_w 5y ago
Mati says in his profile that he knows he is fertile
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by mikk_w 6y ago
If you haven't read this 2008 paper on procedurally generated abstract strategy games, I'd say it's related to your interests: http://ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/browne_..
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by mikk_w 6y ago
In my defense, I originally published this as a throwaway on my Shortform (it's sort of like LessWrong's take on Twitter), but one of the admins wanted me to repost it as a main post. I agree that ideally I would have wanted to pl
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by mikk_w 6y ago
Arimaa is a game that was designed to be hard for AI to master. Its rules are quite different from chess, but it has a lot of chess in its DNA. It has since been solved, but it survived 11 years with a $10,000+ prize for the first computer
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by mikk_w 6y ago
This reminds me of David Sirlin's ill-named 'Chess 2' - one notable mechanic from there is that players have stones that they can use to bid when a piece is captured, and if the defender wins the bid, then the capture fails.
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by mikk_w 6y ago
I played a good bit of Really Bad Chess when I was first getting into chess. I'm a big fan of Zach Gage's games, I think compared to his other works it's not as platonically good as his other works, but what I love about RBC
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by mikk_w 6y ago
I agree that promotions are an important part of what makes Shogi work so well. As I mentioned in the article, I see there are two ways to make drop chess work - either build a game around weak pieces, or make the king more nimble. I think
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by mikk_w 6y ago
Author of the linked post here. I've actually done more Go than Chess in the past 6 months - I enjoy it a lot. My dream is to find a game that captures what I love about both Go and Chess. I've seen many examples of how not to mak
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by mikk_w 6y ago
And yet the inventors of Capablanca Chess and Fischer960 chess were both World Champions
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by mikk_w 6y ago
The best way to solve this is to say that you can't move a piece right back to where it just came from, like the ko rule in Go. As for superko, I think the threefold rule works just fine.
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by mikk_w 6y ago
I'm excited to see this. It reminds me of a paper by Cameron Browne ( http://ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/browne_... ), which does similarly, but using less advanced technology. While
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by mikk_w 6y ago
This is already a known variant (modulo the constraint on the second move not relying on the first). Best way to play it is that the white's first turn is only one move, then black starts with the first double move - this is the 12* pr