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From: mlab2@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: What? NO PD CHESS FOR MAC???
Message-ID: <26395.272dfaaa@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 03:11:53 GMT
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In article <25429@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, rsvp@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (R. Scott V. Paterson) writes:
> tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish) writes:
>>Maybe it's time to port one from the (shudder) IBM or Amiga worlds.
> 
> Yes, please.  I've seen a really excellent Chess game in which the
> pieces are animated.  When a queen takes a pawn, they actually
> fight (of course, you know which piece will win beforehand).  I've
> been waiting for this for the mac for about two years.
> -rsvp

"Battle Chess" or some such?  Writing a "battling chess" game for the Mac has
only _briefly_ sparked my fancy.  The problem becomes: who really wants to hack
the search tree?  All that work and then, when you've finished, all you've done
is coded another chess program.
Are there generic chess algorithms (pref Pascal) that can be used as a shell?

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