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💡📝Larry Smith wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 08:53 PM UTC:
Yes, pieces can be 'weighted' to allow for calculation. But this is an 'averaging' value. There would need to be constant update to this value to make it of significance.

And establishing a program which 'learns' would entail foreknowledge by the programmer of each and every potential which needs to be evaluated.

Just look to the programs of the game of Go. Very few are able to meet the ability of a master of this game. Even with structure and positional pattern recognition of the Go stones, the programs have difficulty in seeing the 'bigger picture'.

And the Mad Queen variant has crippled most game programmers in their analytical thinking. Seeing a game as only a series of moves and exchanges. (And yes, I know, that some programs look to positional patterns but they are few.)

Let me state that I do not believe that this particular game represents any serious hindrance to eventual quantification. Only that it represents a 'step' away from simple quantification.