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In article <1992Mar13.114342.139660@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
>I am forwarding the following query from my friend Harry Falk.
>It appeared today on the INDOLOGY discussion list.
>Any answers to gnu.chess, me or Harry.  Many thanks.
>Dominik
>
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>From root Fri Mar 13 02:14:34 1992
>Message-Id: <56192.9203130214@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
>Date:         Thu, 12 Mar 92 12:44:29 CET
>Reply-To: Indology discussion list <INDOLOGY@UK.AC.LIVERPOOL>
>Sender: Owner of INDOLOGY <QQ43@UK.AC.LIVERPOOL>
>From: harry <FALK@DE.UNI-FREIBURG.RUF.IBM>
>Subject:      chess
>X-To:         Chris Wolff <indology@uk.ac.liverpool>
>To: Dominik Wujastyk <D.WUJASTYK@uk.ac.ucl>
>Status: ORr
>
>a collegue asks me to put his question before this audience:
>is there a computer program playing chess according to (ancient) Indian
>rules: queen only moving one step diagonally, bishops not much brighter etc.?
>If not: would it be possible to write a new or patch an existing program
>to implement the necessary rules?
I don't think patching gnuchess would be much trouble.
I think you don't have to modify much more than the move generation
tables.
Evaluation is another matter.
>Harry
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