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Conquer. Captured pieces change sides immediately, occupying the square the capturer moved from. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Gerd Degens wrote on Thu, May 4, 2023 03:43 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 07:51 AM:

and limit my editorial activities here to providing old articles with Interactive Diagrams.

O.k., I got that and thanks for your comment.
In your interactive diagram for Conquer, you had noted that ...

The consequense of this is that in the search it will at somepoint quickly encounter a position where perpetual recapture is possible. And since recaptures are always searched, no matter how deep the search already went, this leads to an infinite regression that crashes the program.

Do you think that there can or will be a solution for the problem. If not, the approach gets stuck halfway and cannot be played or tested. I would like to help, but I don't know how.