I invented a chess variation called: Elphaba Chess This is just like International Chess except that the queen can't capture the opponent's pieces and it can't be captured --- it is just used for blocking.
I would like to write a program to play this game, but writing that from scratch is beyond me. Perhaps I could find a public-domain open-source chess program and modify it to use my rules. I would have to change the legal-move code to eliminate captures by the queen or captures of the queen. Other than that, the program should work fine. Check-mate is still the goal. The queen is still worth 9 points, but that is irrelevant, so you might as well say that it is worth 0 points. I would not expect the point values for the other pieces to change --- they might though --- this would have to be determined by experimentation (by stronger players than myself). I would prefer to do this in Go as I'm learning Go and this would be a good learning exercise. If there are no such programs available in Go however, then I could use another language --- I know C, C++ and Pascal, but not very well, and I don't like them much. My background is in Forth (I've done that professionally), but ANS-Forth killed Forth in 1994, so nobody really uses Forth anymore. thanks for any links --- Hugh My ultimate goal with Go is to write a program to "understand" the Ido language, at least insomuch as generating a grammar diagram for a sentence and determining if the sentence is grammatical. It could go from there to generating an English or Spanish translation. I have a lot to learn about Go before I tackle such a program however. Does Go run on smart-phones? I have only heard of Java and Objective-C being used. I have no interest in learning Java, and not much interest in Objective-C. This program lends itself well to parallel processing. The meaning and part-of-speech (POS) of each word in an Ido sentence is context-insensitive, so the words can be analyzed in parallel. I have designed a multi-core Forth processor that can be built into an FPGA --- that is what I would like to use --- build a handheld device to do the translation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
