In my opinion, Antichess should be changed to a 960 starting position
what should this even mean, it has totally different rules.
such as suggesting "in my opinion Go should be a chess variant"
such as suggesting "in my opinion Go should be a chess variant"
AlphaZero can play Go
@TKSBHMEASRonald
alphazero can play go, therefore go is chess?
i can eat apples and pears, therefore they are the same?
yes.
alphazero can play go, therefore go is chess?
i can eat apples and pears, therefore they are the same?
yes.
That's a good idea. It would also be interesting in Crazyhouse, King of the Hill and Three Check. I have another idea. In Racing Kings the kings should start from the squares a1 and h1 instead of a2 and h2.
so we are just going to ignore that this thread doesn't even make sense
alright
alright
OP says that Antichess should have a 960 starting position, for more variety.
Pretty sure that OPs point is that the standard start position for antichess has a known forced win. If you totally randomized the starting positions of the pieces(no need to limit it as much as chess960 does, since kings are not special, but mirroring the black and white pieces would make sense) then most likely it wouldn't be worth the trouble to solve the thousands of resulting positions, and the people who are bothered by playing a "solved" game would be able to play antichess again.
Programmer Angrim, you know a forced win in normal Antichess games?! That's envyable! So why don't you play Antichess and become the best player on the planet?
@philodendron68 Note that losing chess is another name for antichess. Here's a link to the paper about the proof.
http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/~watkins/LOSING_CHESS/ICGA2016.pdf
http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/~watkins/LOSING_CHESS/ICGA2016.pdf
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