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- From: dak@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
- Subject: Re: Chess Problem
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- Date: 14 Sep 92 08:38:21 GMT
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- jmarlan@titan.nmt.edu (Jon Marlan) writes:
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- >In article <BuGA8t.DL8@cmptrc.lonestar.org> carter@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Carter Bennett) writes:
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- >> FOLLOW-UP QUESTION FOR EXTRA CREDIT:
- >>
- >> Determine the odds for doing the same with eight bishops! ;-)
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- >I'll give this one a try.
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- >Let B(i) = # of available "safe" places for i'th bishop
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- >B(1) = 64
- >B(2) = 64-8 = 56
- Too bad, you scratched.
- As any chess player could tell you, a bishop controls MORE squares
- if it is located in the middle of the board than at an edge.
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- In one of the middle squares it controls 13 squares (not counting the
- one it is standing on), at the edge only 7.
- That is what makes the problem so much more difficult than the
- rook problem.
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