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Scott2006 · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: Intellectual: pastimes or sport?

As chess was a pastime of the kings,
while polo was the sport of eastern Kings.

Does variants of chess qualify as a sport within a pstime or solely as a pastime?

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Scott2006 · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:52 am Post subject:

I'm sure mentioned in passing,
among other things,
i've been working on a version of hyper-chess or hyprechess or hyperchess,
anyway one version of many variants,
relies on a 64 by 64 or 4096 squares with 64 different pieces each with their own pawn on a rank in front of them.

Anyone see a successful or launched version of this game already?
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agentmancuso · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

What size is the board? Shocked

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Scott2006 · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

64 squares across and 64 squares depth.

64 multiplied by itself giving 4096 total squares.

It is partly a way to intellectually fine tune strategies used by computers on their/its own learning processes.

As normal chess has become easy enough for the tracking computer programmes used in decision making on the 8 x 8, 64 square board, an almost quantum jump is needed to continue the evolution of ideas in the field of mathematics and computing.

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