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Anonymous wrote on Thu, May 12, 2005 05:57 PM UTC:

Greetings, colleagues.
My name is Vitaliy Korolev (St-Peterburg, Russia).
 
Yesterday I have casually found this site and this discussion - in 15
years after creation of the game rules. It would be very interesting to
contact with Ukrainian colleagues Arnold J. Krasowsky & Andrey Krasowsky.


Concerning to the game I shall inform the following. Per 1991 I have sent
to Mr. Pritchard the rules of the “Synchronous chess” for the publication
at his Encyclopedia of the Chess Variants. He answered, that else in 1971
V.R.Patron has offered similar rules (SYNCHRONISTIC CHESS), but rules in
my edition (SYNCHRONOUS CHESS) have some of differences, and ' more
logical ' therefore have been included to the encyclopedia.

S.Y.
Vit
[email protected]

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Synchronous Chess A game information page

. Chess played with written simultaneous moves.

Ralf Hansmann wrote on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 09:47 PM UTC:

Hallo, just a short note,which might be of interest for some of you. I have recently received the translation of the synchronous chess rules into Russian language, which was accomplished by Andriy Krasowsky (Àíäðåé À. Êðàñîâñêèé), and I have just now put them on the web here: 'Ñèíõðîííûå øàõìàòû' - Best regrads / Ralf

Vitaly Korolev wrote on Mon, May 30, 2005 07:28 PM UTC:

MT***By 'algorithmatization', do you mean finding an algorithm by which a
player can be certain not to lose? That's a good question.***

Vit: No, I mean ability for PC playing... But the question is really good
:-).


MT*** I thought at first it was obvious that no such algorithm could be
found, since Synchronous Chess is not a perfect-information game, but as I
think about it a second time, I realize it's not so obvious. But I think
it's unlikely there could be such an algorithm. Luck is a factor.***

VK. Yes: luck or telepathy  ƒº.

Vit

Mark Thompson wrote on Wed, May 25, 2005 04:37 AM UTC:

By 'algorithmatization', do you mean finding an algorithm by which a player can be certain not to lose? That's a good question. I thought at first it was obvious that no such algorithm could be found, since Synchronous Chess is not a perfect-information game, but as I think about it a second time, I realize it's not so obvious. But I think it's unlikely there could be such an algorithm. Luck is a factor.

Vitaly Korolev wrote on Tue, May 24, 2005 06:35 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Good afternoon, colleagues!

I very interest the basic opportunity or impossibility of
algorithmization
SC. 
In the my rules-description I put forward a hypothesis that
algorithmization of synchronous games, in particular, a chess, is
impossible. And all this time (1991-2005) I searched for the interlocutor
with whom could discuss this question. Similar, that at this forum I has
found. I very glad to meet Arnold Krasovsky here.
I give the reference to a Russian-speaking variant of the rules in the
Internet:
http://chess-e.narod.ru/Lib/sinchess.htm 

Vit

Mark Thompson wrote on Sun, May 22, 2005 09:50 PM UTC:

Yes -- to play a game like this well the computer would have to use what's called 'classical' game theory rather than, I suppose, 'combinatorial' game theory. In classical game theory, which is used for games of simultaneous movement, the possible choices for each player form the rows / columns of a matrix, and the entries of the matrix describe the value of the result to one of the players. The optimal strategy for each player is a vector giving the probability that the player should give to each possible choice. If the matrix is known then the calculation of the optimal strategies is straightforward. But the conventional ways of evaluating the value of a game position for standard chess would not apply here, so figuring out the entries to the matrix would be difficult. It might be a good research project for some grad student studying game theory, though.

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