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Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by searchableguy on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:03PM (#25483471)
Is there any variant where both players play blind every other move or in the starting?
Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by esrauch on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:52PM (#25483966)
There's a 'fog of war' variant where you can only see the squares that a piece of yours could move to.
Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by sterlind on Sunday December 20, 2020 @04:00AM (#25484930)
That one would be interesting to try with AlphaZero. Reinforcement learning systems tend to have trouble with imperfect information.
Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by seabass on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:10AM (#25484028)
--that a piece of yours could attack, I believe, not move to
Re:Ideal Chess – drop chess perfected? by esrauch on Monday December 21, 2020 @04:36PM (#25499886)
I just checked and if you want to be technical it's "move to normally, could move to during a capture if a piece was there, or holds a piece you could capture".

Pawns are the only case that where those three are different but they see all three:

- directly in front (move)

- forward-diagonal (normal attack)

- horizonal exactly only in the case of a enemy pawn moved to that square last turn that can be taken en-passant (capture). That square goes dark if you move another piece.