Апокалиптическое письмо

LeoMinor пишет:


и с таким решением :

10(31)4(372.43)38.37(7)30(12)24(18)19(27)14(23)9(28)3(272)14.46+.

Сегодня получил апокалиптическое письмо автора програмы Kingsrow , господина Еd Gilbert. Похоже , мечта Jaap Bus , Virmantas Masiulis ,  комунистов и некоторых колхозников осуществляется : нажать кнопку !  

Ну что-ж , пора складивать оружие и уступать место киборгам , ленивцам ,  неталантам ...

А вот и письмо . Тут даже и перевода не нужно , все понятно , что понятнее не может быть. А господина Jaap Bus мне жалко ( импотенция в любом смысле плохая вещь ) , жалко мне и многих композиторов и в самом конце и шашечной композиции. Уничтожать всегда было проще , чем строить и развивать.

Hello Gentlemen,

I am writing to you because each of you has in the past indicated that you use kingsrow to help analyze draughts compositions. It is a subject that I know very little about, and I have a question that perhaps you can help me with. It is not a technical question but more asking for an opinion.

Jaap Bus recently asked me if it was possible to write a program that could select from the draughts endgame databases all the positions that meet the requirements of a thematic variant, or composition. He described to me what these requirements are. It is indeed possible and not very difficult to construct such a program. In a couple of days I had a program that selects for positions up to 8 pieces all the white to move positions that have a path to the end of the game where white has only one winning move at each turn, where white has only one piece remaining at the end of the game, and where the first white move is not a capture. The program excludes positions when another thematic variant with the same sequence of moves is generated by replacing any of the kings with a man.

It will only take a day or two for the program to find all the 6-piece thematic variants. 7 and 8 piece variants will take a lot longer, but they are possible. Based on my trial runs, there are millions of these positions. I would probably add some filtering criteria to filter out some positions that are not interesting, based on the length of the solutions, and other such things. I could publish very large lists of the resulting thematic variants at my web site.

I understand that there are annual contests to create compositions, and I do not want to do anything that might spoil the fun for the people that participate in those events. I don't know if my program would do that or not. If publishing lists of all the thematic variant positions for up to 7 or 8 pieces would indeed be a detriment to the competitions, then I will put the program away and not use it.

I'm asking you draughts experts for your opinions on this subject. Should I keep this data to myself?

I should also add that this is not a difficult program to write. I'm sure there are thousands of programmers that could easily do the same, and perhaps some already have.

Thanks for any input.

-- Ed