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I have chessV installed for a long time now. Big Congrats on it, can I program Enep with it, the old version?
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Sep 1, 2016 04:41 AM UTC:No, I use my program, ChessV. (old version here - http://samiam.org/chessv/ - new version in progress, which is what I'm using to test, but not released yet.)
I ran games at 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 20 minutes per game and white won all three. I'll reverse the colors to give the side with the extra pawn the first move and see what happens.
Hello Greg,
How will you program it, I use c++ to program my other chess variants (not out yet). Will you use Zillions of Games?
Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Sep 1, 2016 03:36 AM UTC:Hi Aurelian,
Congratulations on your first submission and welcome to the CVP!
I would estimate the knight augmented with a non-capturing wazir move to be worth about 4. Even without capture ability it still increases mobility significantly. The side with two augmented knights should win.
This won't be difficult to program - I'll run a few computer test matches and let you know how it goes.
My first instinct after hand play against myself and noticing not only the winner but also the very limited use of the knight enhancement, is that in this case the enhancement worth less than .5 pawns. That is mostly because the knight enhacement doesn't offer much. I'm already thinking about a Grand chess (Cristian Freeling's version) knight enchaced with a threeleaper or tripper (i.e. an (3,0) jumper or an (3,3) jumper). It would matter as it makes the knight faster in a similar manner to the enhanced knight in Omega chess. This could be worth comparable or more to a Grand pawn. What do you guys think about it? This discussion can be applied to Fergus Duniho's Eurasian chess or Jean Louis Cazaux's (I took part of my Ph.D. in Toulouse) Shako. What do you guys think about it?
I've done several other experiments by hand with this setup and figured out that the side with the extra pawn seems in advantage, although I never tried a bishop pawn setup, maybe that is the key to equality. The second setup seems an always victory for white after several attempts. What do you guys think?
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One more thing, I play chess rather closed and in my working experience chessV plays rather open, could this matter, if so probably not much. Still 4 points for a knightwa seems a bit much to me, maybe 3.8. Should we try a vs 2 pawns aproach meaning depraving the knightwa side of an pawn? 3.8 could be "lying with numbers" as mister Betza says in a few articles!