On 6 Nov 02, at 11:32, Programmer Dude wrote:
David Jones wrote:
Now "recursive chess" sounds like fun! Who's got the programming smarts to make it work?
It probably wouldn't be that hard, since the program itself need only be a chess program itself capable of recursion.
The problem--as always with recursion--is when do you stop? ;-\
You sure got that right! I've played against a number of chess programs over the years, and they can take a long time to move. Could you imagine that happening for every single square on the board? Oh, one difference between chess and a board war game. No amount of tactical level combat would change an infantry unit into an armored unit. It sounded like this recursive chess idea could lead to changing the nature of the unit there ... Probably have to come up with higher levels of abstraction to actually make this translate into something even vaguely real. Several years ago, I got the idea of fractal music in which each note was produced by a fractal. For example, if you "zoomed" in on a middle C quarter note, it actually turned into a cluster of shorter duration notes that might or might not be centered on middle C. I wonder if there is such a thing as a musical note too short to be heard by the human ear? Anyway, fun stuff! David gnome@hawaii.rr.com