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Reducing Strength
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Ed Schroder



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PostPost subject: Re: Reducing Strength    Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:17 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
A couple of ideas I have used.

1. Cripple the piece values. If a queen has a similar value as a pawn then even a beginner makes a chance to win. Disadvantage: it still will find mates.

2. Force pawns to move by giving it a (random) bonus at the root.

3. A more advanced technique (I called it Club Player) is to give a random bonus / penalty for all root moves in such a way it only occasionally makes a blunder, just like most of us poor chess players like to do.
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Reducing Strength Ted Wong Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:22 am
      Re: Reducing Strength Edmund Moshammer Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:43 am
            Re: Reducing Strength Ted Wong Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:21 am
                  Re: Reducing Strength Pawel Koziol Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:10 am
                        Re: Reducing Strength Ted Wong Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:04 am
      Re: Reducing Strength Ferdinand Mosca Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:34 am
      Re: Reducing Strength Robert Houdart Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:44 am
            Re: Reducing Strength Ed Schroder Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:17 pm
                  Re: Reducing Strength Mike Robinson Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:55 pm
      Re: Reducing Strength Robert Hyatt Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:02 pm
            Re: Reducing Strength Mike Robinson Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:40 pm
                  Re: Reducing Strength Ted Wong Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:35 pm
                  Re: Reducing Strength Edmund Moshammer Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:26 pm
            Re: Reducing Strength Jon Dart Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:53 pm
                  Re: Reducing Strength Robert Hyatt Sat Mar 17, 2012 4:07 pm
                        Re: Reducing Strength Pawel Koziol Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:36 pm
                              Re: Reducing Strength Ted Wong Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:47 am
      Re: Reducing Strength Ben-Hur Carlos Langoni Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:39 pm
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