Re:Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero
by egypturnash on Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:23PM
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“Variants such as Torpedo, Pawn-sideways, No-Castling, and Self-capture are now a reality, playable on a major chess portal such as chess.com.5 On the back of the initial evidence, the first No-castling tournament was held in Chennai in January 2020.” - one of the last few paragraphs in the article
Oh thanks! I skimmed some paragraphs, must have missed that. Gonna check that out.
Software rendering of these rules might lag a bit—but if you have dedicated hardware, it should be possible to make this work.
This is such an intriguing comment. What question are you answering?
I think it's just a subtle way of saying "Implementing these rules in software might take a while, but you can use a physical chess board to try these variants"
Re:Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero
by londons_explore on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:50AM
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Help me understand... Why would I need dedicated hardware to render chess moves that are slightly different to regular chess moves...?
Your comment makes no sense...
Use a physical board and play against a person.
It flew over my head at first too. Subtle joke.
>Do any chess games support these modes or is these possible to play today?
Chess.com currently supports most of the modes in the list - except, I think, semi-torpedo, no-castling (10), and pawn-back. Which, to me, are the least exciting mods anyway.
I think Lichess is the best, and I have read that it is only maintained by one person.
I agree, I use lichess - but the question was, where can we play these modes.
I found pawn-back to be the most interesting just from the changes to existing chess logic. Pawn-back resulted in the most change in piece-value from classical and during simulations were used 100% of the time.
Re:Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero
by SubiculumCode on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:32AM
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No castling? Okay, 1.D4 it is.
Interesting variations to the rules. Here's an annotated quote:
"The nine changes considered in this study are listed in Table 1. No-castling and No-castling (10) involve a full and partial [not allowed during first 10 turns / 20 plies] restriction on the castling rule. Pawn-one-square, Semi-torpedo [can move 2 squares on 2ed and 3rd ranks], Torpedo [can move 2 squares], Pawn-back [up to your 2ed rank, don't count against 50 limit], and Pawn-sideways involve changes to pawn mobility. Self-capture chess allows players to also capture their own pieces. Finally, Stalemate=win recasts stalemate as a win for the attacking side, rather than a draw."
Do any chess games support these modes or is these possible to play today?