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Chess variants (10x8)

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10. April 2005, 17:05:19

rabbitoid

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Subject: Re: Re:

Modified by rabbitoid (10. April 2005, 17:06:09)

EdTrice: (and Chessmaster1000) : yes, there are extra figures, but for a single problem, say KQP-KQ, or some such not involving C or A, these don't come into calculation.

I'm not sure how your tables are set up. as for the ones for regular chess, the calculation ends with a capture or conversion, and the table points to a simpler table.

so the "only" difference is the board size, an increase of 100/64 in the number of squares. this is still considerable: for a single table of 5 distinct figures, in reg chess that comes to 64 * 63 * 62 * 61 * 60 ~ 10^9 initial positions, vs 100 * 99 * 98 * 97* 96 ~ 10^10 initial positions for gothic, again, not counting illegal positions, checks or symmetries. that is still a factor of 10. and, of course, the fact that a free central Q has 27 moves in reg chess vs 30 in gothic.