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Re:The Kilobyte’s Gambit by chki on Sunday March 07, 2021 @06:32PM (#26380828)
I agree. I'm at a similar chess rating level, I would add that it is very weak in the endgame. I guess if it only looks four moves into the future it's difficult to see pawn promotions.
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Re:The Kilobyte’s Gambit by SubiculumCode on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:41PM (#26381204)
I'm of similar rating on Lichess, and agree with the above comments. To be honest, any difficulties I encountered were due to unfamiliarity with the look of the pieces. Still, it was fun.
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Re:The Kilobyte’s Gambit by register on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:30AM (#26382562)
It looks one-two semi-moves ahead at maximum.
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Re:The Kilobyte’s Gambit by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:12AM (#26383641)
"ply" :)

The "How it works" link says it looks ahead 4 moves, that's probably 2 ply.

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Re:The Kilobyte’s Gambit by mattround on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:18AM (#26383665)
I was a bit lax using 'moves', it's 4 ply, so that's 2 full moves.
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Re:The Kilobyte’s Gambit by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday March 08, 2021 @02:10PM (#26390127)
Oh, hey, you're the developer, right? Thanks for clarifying :)

Can you say what the lookahead is like? Is it a version of minimax?

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