Tag: chess programming tricks
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Better safe than sorry…
As already mentioned in another article, the main method of winning (or losing) a chess game is through a double attack (check the “Chess programming and basic chess principles: Episode 2 – Double attack” article). So how can the computer program we develop be protected against such attacks? Obviously, the computer needs to detect such…
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Chess programming and basic chess principles: Episode 2 – Double attack
Double attack is the single most important thing a computer (or a human) should search for when thinking for a game of chess. Why is that? Well, simply put, there is no other way to win material other than the double attack! If you threat one piece of the opponent then the opponent can simply…