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Would you buy a robotic arm/computer that could play your varian
t?
By: GothicChessInventor Date: February 7, 2018, 3:25 pm
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I have starting working on building my own Gothic Chess computer
that will play with a robotic arm that moves the pieces. This
won't be for sale to anyone, it's just a project I always wanted
to do, and now that I am retired I have the time and energy to
do it.
I am curious though. If you had the money, would you buy a
computer (in the shape of your chess board) that could play your
own variant and move the pieces?
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Re: Would you buy a robotic arm/computer that could play your va
riant?
By: chilipepper Date: February 7, 2018, 5:44 pm
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If I had the money, yes. But I would just have them play chess
(to me the uniqueness is not the chess game, but the fact that
it is being played by a robot).
In fact I would buy two, and have them play against each other
(with time control like 40 moves per minute).
For inspiration, check this video of a robot that solves Rubik's
cube in less than 3 seconds. I think there's others that do it
in less than a second.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEiQwmEe45s&vl=en
Regardless, whatever you make it will be very cool. :)
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Re: Would you buy a robotic arm/computer that could play your va
riant?
By: GothicChessInventor Date: February 7, 2018, 7:13 pm
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[quote author=chilipepper link=topic=65.msg430#msg430
date=1518047054]
For inspiration, check this video of a robot that solves Rubik's
cube in less than 3 seconds. I think there's others that do it
in less than a second.
[/quote]
Yes, I am very "cube aware" and I wrote a 5x5x5 Rubik's Cube
(the Professor's Cube) solver. It is the only "Brute Force"
solver for the 5x5x5 and it can see 14 moves ahead. It is the
only program on the planet that can solve this position:
HTML https://alg.cubing.net/?puzzle=5x5x5&setup=F_3U_B_3U_B-_3U_B-_3U_B_3U_F_3R_F2_3R-&alg=3R_F2_3R-_F-_3U-_B-_3U-_B_3U-_B_3U-_B-_3U-_F-&title=14%20move%20offset%20centers
If you are interested in cubes, I oversee a Cube Discussion
board mostly for larger Rubik's Cubes, 4x4x4 and up. One of the
participants wrote a 17x17x17 solver!
HTML http://cubesolvingprograms.freeforums.net/
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Re: Would you buy a robotic arm/computer that could play your va
riant?
By: chilipepper Date: February 12, 2018, 2:01 pm
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I can't believe the number of programs you've written to play
chess variants, solve chess variant end-games, solve puzzles,
and find prime numbers.
It's almost unbelievable. ::)
I very rarely use the word "God" to describe people. But I will
say you are a puzzle and programming monster! :)
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Re: Would you buy a robotic arm/computer that could play your va
riant?
By: GothicChessInventor Date: February 12, 2018, 6:36 pm
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[quote author=chilipepper link=topic=65.msg455#msg455
date=1518465684]
I can't believe the number of programs you've written to play
chess variants, solve chess variant end-games, solve puzzles,
and find prime numbers.
It's almost unbelievable. ::)
I very rarely use the word "God" to describe people. But I will
say you are a puzzle and programming monster! :)
[/quote]
It's one of the consequences of being old; you had a long time
to do stuff.
I wrote my first chess program when I was 19. It ran on a
machine with 128 Kilobytes of RAM. In other words, 1/8th of one
megabyte. This was back in 1987.
I eventually upgraded my Macintosh 128K to a Macintosh SE/30
which ran at 16 MHz and had 2 MB of RAM. I thought that was
fast.
I played it in USCF tournaments against other humans, and it was
rated 2129. This was about 4 years after Ken Thompson's hardware
machine, named Belle, broke 2200 for the first time.
The machine I have now has 1 million times as much RAM (128 GB
vs. 128 MB) and is more than 1000 times as fast. I wonder what
its rating would be if I could transport back in time and use
this machine with my old program?
HTML http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12528567
But I thank you for your kind compliments, although clearly God
would be offended at the comparison. If I get smited by The
Almighty, I blame you.
:)
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