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Olde-Skuul / battlechessgameofkings

Issues for the game BattleChess: Game of Kings
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Internal engine has serious bugs(?), needs better balancing #18

Open My2Eurocents opened 9 years ago

My2Eurocents commented 9 years ago

In order to get my "boy beats girl"-achievement, I decided to blunder my Queen away but to my big surprise that would not work that easy. Game went:

1.e4 c5 2.Qh5 Nf6 3.Qg6 Nc6??

I was able to reproduce that on any level below Clergyman, which is simply not good. Difficulty normally correlates to searchdepth. One would expect a "toy-enigine" to have a searchdepth of 1 or 2 ply on lowest and at least 6 ply on highest difficulty, but the problem I described has nothing to do with searchdepth. Not capturing a queen for free and playing a developing move instead is just "artificial insanity".

I read this really long review of that guy that ranted about how challenging the late 80s BattleChess was and how disappointed he was when he checked out the AI of the remake and my initial thought was, that maybe he just became better at chess in the past 25 years, but now I am not that sure anymore...

My2Eurocents commented 9 years ago

Can not be reproduced with this one: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/battle-chess-et/play (captures queen immediately in that Situation)

In case you are using the original enginecode, there must have gone something wrong when you added the polyglot book...