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Slacker00711-Jan-16 5:59

Slacker007

11-Jan-16 5:59

OriginalGriff11-Jan-16 4:01

OriginalGriff

11-Jan-16 4:01

What are you going to do if they are packed in the same box?

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

ZurdoDev11-Jan-16 4:03

ZurdoDev

11-Jan-16 4:03

You of all people should not question the logistics of a corny joke. Poke tongue | ;-P

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Mark Parity11-Jan-16 4:04

Mark Parity

11-Jan-16 4:04

They always do that for me anyway when I order two smallish items together (but I didn't want to spoil his joke. Smile | :)

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Andreas Mertens11-Jan-16 5:54

Andreas Mertens

11-Jan-16 5:54

Perhaps Schroedinger can answer this... Big Grin | :-D

Mark Parity11-Jan-16 4:02

Mark Parity

11-Jan-16 4:02

Is there anything Amazon doesn't sell these days?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter11-Jan-16 4:04

11-Jan-16 4:04

amazon...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Amarnath S11-Jan-16 4:04

Amarnath S

11-Jan-16 4:04

Yes. It doesn't sell 'Display Name Taken' Smile | :)

908236511-Jan-16 4:06

9082365

11-Jan-16 4:06

I hope that's on Prime or you'll be getting two chickens!

I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!

jeron111-Jan-16 4:13

jeron1

11-Jan-16 4:13

I say it doesn't matter as they both quickly end up in a fry pan.

"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Eddy Vluggen11-Jan-16 5:35

Eddy Vluggen

11-Jan-16 5:35

Can somebody order a rooster and send it to Ryans' address using priority mail to ensure it comes first? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Bastard Programmer from Hell Suspicious | :suss:

If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

S Houghtelin11-Jan-16 6:21

S Houghtelin

11-Jan-16 6:21

Truth be known, it was a duck that came first, you always get the bill first.

It was broke, so I fixed it.

KarstenK11-Jan-16 7:17

KarstenK

11-Jan-16 7:17

Maybe you get two chickens. (if the egg has a bigger delay) Laugh | :laugh:

Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany

thatraja11-Jan-16 7:51

thatraja

11-Jan-16 7:51

OT: I liked this Animated short film[^] named this thread's title.

thatraja

Coming soon1 | Coming soon2 | Coming soon3^New

It's about chess...

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter11-Jan-16 3:55

11-Jan-16 3:55

xkcd: Magnus[^]
Lot of times people think that just because I'm a software developer I'm good at chess too (I'm not that bad, but definitely not that good)...
And seeing XKCD I was wondering why chess is so interesting after all these years...

My guess - the (almost) endless number of variations of games...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

908236511-Jan-16 4:05

9082365

11-Jan-16 4:05

Chess is considered by all who do not play as the ultimate expression of intelligence. As such it is the ideal game for AI developers to have their creations play in order to bamboozle and astonish the public while achieving nothing of any true importance and maintain their grants. Cynical, moi?

I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!

F-ES Sitecore11-Jan-16 4:15

F-ES Sitecore

11-Jan-16 4:15

Because I'm a software developer people think I can install their new RAM, set-up their printer, or rid their machine of viruses.

It's a funny old world Smile | :)

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter11-Jan-16 4:21

11-Jan-16 4:21

People are full of strange fantasies...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

W∴ Balboos, GHB11-Jan-16 5:28

W∴ Balboos, GHB

11-Jan-16 5:28

I usually explain that to people in by asking if the last time they wanted to have their teeth cleaned the went to a proctologist.*

* meant on multiple levels of inuendo

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert

"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Slacker00711-Jan-16 5:59

Slacker007

11-Jan-16 5:59

dandy7211-Jan-16 7:12

dandy72

11-Jan-16 7:12

F-ES Sitecore wrote:
Because I'm a software developer people think I can install their new RAM, set-up their printer, or rid their machine of viruses.

Can, yes; willing, not so much.

F-ES Sitecore11-Jan-16 22:18

F-ES Sitecore

11-Jan-16 22:18

Shhhhhh....keep that to yourself Wink | ;)

PIEBALDconsult11-Jan-16 18:44

PIEBALDconsult

11-Jan-16 18:44

Ah, chess...

I think about it once in a while. Remember this question from October? The Lounge - CodeProject[^]

I think of it this way:

0) There are sixty-four spaces on a chess board
1) Each space may be unoccupied or occupied by one token (I'll try not to say "piece")
2) There are six types of token: King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook/Castle, Pawn
3) There are two colors of token: Black, White (usually)
4) That makes twelve distinct token values, plus we can use a "null" token to represent an empty space, for a total of thirteen values

I chess position can therefore be reduced to a sixty-four digit base-13 value.
Windows calculator calculates 13^64 as 1.9605347643076107333065976042357e+71 .
A great many such values will not represent a valid chess position.

So all you need to do is enumerate from zero to 1.9605347643076107333065976042357e+71, eliminate the invalid values and determine a pair of "best next position" values (one for black, one for white), and store them. Then during a game, a simple look-up is all that is needed to select your move.

It becomes boring really; hardly any challenge at all.

Here's what I wrote in October; this is the hard part:

[System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Chess piece definition")]
public enum Piece
{
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("No piece, empty square")]
    None = 0
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Piece has a special or limiting movement rule")]
    SpecialMask = 1
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Piece can move only in ranks or files")]
    OrthogonalMask = 2
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Piece can move diagonally")]
    DiagonalMask = 4
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Black chess piece")]
    BlackMask = 8
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Knight")]
    Knight = 1
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Rook")]
    Rook = 2
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Pawn")]
    Pawn = 3
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Bishop")]
    Bishop = 4
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("Queen")]
    Queen = 6
,
    [System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute("King")]
    King = 7
}

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter11-Jan-16 20:41

11-Jan-16 20:41

Actually all chess programs are combining two things...
1. Basic knowledge of the chess rules
2. A lookup of pr-recorded strategies (for opening, play and end-play separately in most cases)

The reason for that is that there is on really best-move for most parts of the game...Chess is not only about moving the pieces around but to build a defense/offense strategy that will provide you not only with small victories but winning the war too...

There is a few estimates of the number of possible chess games (between 10^50 to 10^120) and they say there is more chess games than atoms in the universe (which of course has no base and only effective as a way to tell that there are unimaginably large number of games)...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.