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Capablanca Random Chess. Randomized setup for Capablanca chess. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Mon, Feb 28, 2005 04:42 PM UTC:
<BLOCKQUOTE> you are obviously unsure on the grade of distinctness between valid CRC arrays and the GC starting position. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE> Comparing the GC array 'RNBQCKABNR' to one reported as from Bird 'RNBCQKABNR' there is a Hamming distance of only two. </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>That is correct. In this instance, the Levenshtein Distance is also 2.</P> <P>Based on this, I see three options for you.</P> <OL> <LI> Exclude just the Gothic Chess setup.</LI> <LI> Exclude any setup whose Hamming Distance from Gothic Chess is 2 or less.</LI> <LI> Exclude any setup whose Levenshtein Distance from Gothic Chess is 2 or less.</LI> </OL> <P>Each subsequent option excludes more setups than the previous one. Your CRC proposal currently uses the second of these options.</P>