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Re:Building My Own Chess Engine by Nemerie on Monday December 28, 2020 @03:49PM (#25563070)
I guess the GP meant queen, not knight.
Re:Building My Own Chess Engine by billforsternz on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @12:09AM (#25566944)
Hadn't thought of that. Amusingly the classic chess algorithms even fail to mate with Q+K v K for reasons I discuss up thread. Eg Sargon 1978 version can't do it. It's basically a terrible idea however you slice it because these mates are a special skill, almost like a different game with different ideas to the rest of chess.