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. The home of Ludii, a general game system that can play the full range of traditional strategy games, including chess variants. () [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Mar 20, 2023 01:20 AM UTC:

Since I figured out how to make the Ludii Player show the last move, I decided to try one more game with it set to its maximum thinking time of 300 seconds, which is 5 minutes. As before, it moved out its Queen and let it get chased around a bit. Overall, it played very poorly, and it was checkmated in 32 moves, making this game even shorter than previous games with less thinking time for Ludii. In the endgame, it seemed to just give up, letting checkmate come even more quickly than it had to. Based on this, I would conclude that Ludii is not nearly as good at playing Chess variants as the Interactive Diagram is. And since that is itself a low bar, my conclusion is that Ludii is not very good for Chess variants. Here's the game:

  1. d4 e6
  2. c3 Qh4
  3. Nf3 Qe4
  4. Nbd2 Qd5
  5. e4 Qh5
  6. Bc4 b5
  7. Bd3 Qg4
  8. O-O Nc6
  9. Bxb5 Bb4
  10. cxb4 Nge7
  11. h3 Qf4
  12. g3 Qd6
  13. Nc4 Qxb4
  14. Qb3 O-O
  15. Qxb4 Nxb4
  16. Bf4 Bb7
  17. Nfd2 Kh8
  18. Bxd7 Rad8
  19. Ne5 f6
  20. Bxe6 fxe5
  21. Bxe5 Nd3
  22. Bxc7 Rxd4
  23. Ba5 Bc6
  24. Bc3 Ra4
  25. Bb3 Nd5
  26. exd5 Rf5
  27. dxc6 Rg5
  28. Bxa4 Rh5
  29. h4 Ne5
  30. Bb4 Rh6
  31. c7 Rh5
  32. c8=Q