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I am on the live site waiting for a game of Gothic if anyone wants to play.
And congrats to Andreas for winning a blitz game in 10 with 12 second increment against me yesterday. I reached what I thought was a very comfortable position, and the tide of the game turned almost instantly. It was a bizarre sort of game, I will post it when the webmaster emails it to me and I annotate it.
Modifisert av Grim Reaper (17. september 2005, 21:57:23)
Pythagoras:
Well, please send me your proof of the Pythagorrean Theorem, or evidence that the moon is NOT made out of green cheese.
What I stated was a belief based on my experience and I never offered anything more than that.
Mely holds close to an International Master title in chess, and is well-versed in Janus Chess also. I was down a Queen + 3 pawns vs. the Archbishop (Janus) while playing white because Black was able to run me out of good moves. It was like distance zugzwang. I was able to dispose of those pawns to get the draw, a difficult concept to realize. And, I was able to win with Black against Mely, again, a very tough competitor.
I would like to believe that never having suffered a loss in Janus while collecting a fair number of wins allows me the freedom to speculate that the game might be inherently easier to play from Black's perspective.
White is also at a disadvantage by moving first in Janus. I had a hard time drawing Mely as white, and a much easier time winning with Black. Tough to explain, but I just think white is practically in zugzwang in the beginning of the game.
And the first person who wins a game against me on a Tuesday gets $50, but so far, no winners (although I had as little as 2 seconds on my clock when I checkmated one player.)
rabbitoid: I think after 48 hours, the hardware difference is negligible. The branching factor is such that almost any machine will get you to the same nominal depth. Say with all of your pruning tricks your software branching factor is 4, down from about 50 in the actual game.
That means if ply X completes at time T, ply X+1 requires 4T, X+2 needs 16T, X+3 64T, etc.
If the speed differential was a factor of 4, meaning one machine was 4 times faster than the other, even after 2 days, the faster machine would only outsearch the other by 1 ply.
I am sure Reinhard's hardware is within a factor or 2 of mine, maybe even less. I have a 2.8 GHz Pentium IV.
Time controls are 1 move in 48 hours (which is not going to be rigidly enforced if Reinhard needs extra time.)
If Reinhard accepts, diagrams will be supplied there so everyone can see the most current position.
I think this will be an interesting match. I would like to know how many nodes S.M.I.R.F. explores each move, what depth it reaches, and its evaluation.
Modifisert av Grim Reaper (13. september 2005, 15:57:44)
naughtypawn:
Do you know how many people have paid to play a game of Gothic Chess, in the whole wide world, because of the patent?
0.
The patent has no bearing on an individual, a tournament director, or anyone else interested in playing the game.
It just prevents a company from saying "Wow there are 40,000 Gothic Chess players out there, let's capitalize on their hard work and make our own game and sell it."
You pay royalties for intellectual property every time you buy a DVD, download music (legally), or buy certain pots and pans.
Those who talk about having to pay to play Gothic Chess have absolutely no understanding of patent law. The only thing you need to do is buy a set, and you would have to pay for that anyway.
andreas: Yes there is Andreas. We need to reorganize the database a bit to handle this, but it can be done. Essentially we will just set the "timer" to 2880 minutes per move (instead of time per game) and keep your "table" open, just not visible to others until you log in.
Like I said, the legal term is Ipse Idem, which translates as "the terms are the same" or "the meanings are equal" depending on the application. There should really be no further public discussion of this, do you not agree?
Modifisert av Grim Reaper (27. august 2005, 03:29:21)
I have a contract with Filip's signature on it. Paragraph 6 states:
6. ADDITIONAL STIPULATIONS - In addition, the Licensee will host the domain of GothicChess.org at no cost to the Licenser for the same duration. The Licensee will also include the following text in the descriptions of the rules of the game as they appear on BrainKing.com:
Gothic Chess is an 80-square variation of chess that adds two ne pieces to the board: an Archbishop, and a Chancellor. This game is most closely related to Capablanca's Chess and Bird's Chess, invented by Ed Trice in the year 2000.
You can see that the current description does not come close to matching this:
Gothic Chess is a variant of Bird's or Capablanca's Chess that has the Archbishop (Knight + Bishop) and Chancellor (Knight + Rook) set up slightly different. It is played on an 8 x 10 chessboard.
This license is also in effect until March 31, 2007.
I have given Filip every opportunity to honor the contract.
It will take some time, but BrainKing.com will honor the contract.
By the way, Gothic Vortex now has the SMP code turned on, so it takes advantage of multiprocessor machines. I have also finished the code to have it probe the 5-piece tablebases in RAM. And I converted it to 64-bit native code.
On a 4x Opteron, it searches at 3.5 million positions per second.
The Vortex in the next World Championship will be very, very different :)
Modifisert av Grim Reaper (26. august 2005, 03:01:12)
I researched the different boards, but some people only translated the names, and not the piece movements associated with them. For example, Capablanca had a Cardinal and a Marshall at one point in time, so did Bird. But Capablanca changed his pieces to Marshall and Chancellor, then Chancellor and Archbishop. So most people do not take into account Bird's Cardinal is not the Archbishop, it was our Chancellor, and his Marshall is not a Chancellor, but was the Archbishop.
Bird's array should have the chancellor and archbishop switched.
Remember, his cardinal and marshall were DIFFERENT than Capablanca's, and later when they were called Chancellor and Archbishop, they were translated "flopped".
The live site at http://www.GothicChessLive.com now has game timers, including the Fischer clock for time increments, as well as a rating system for bullet, blitz, and regular time controls.
One thing I noticed when I access the Task Manager (cntrl-alt-del) is that sometimes Netscape is showing a process already running under the Processes tab (not the Applications tab) and at these times, I do not get the Java applet components sent to me properly.
Run the Task Manager before you launch your browser. Hit the Processes tab, then sort the "Mem Usage" in descending order (highest to lowest). Look for a process named similar to your browser. If the browser has not even been launched yet, select that item, then click on the End Process button down on the lower right.