A large scale Lego chess game

[Q]

Lego my Queen!
Skip to around 2:35 to see the scale.

 

[Tweak155]

Wow. Very cool. Doesn't look perfected yet but very well done still.

 

[Dumac]

I love Lego Mindstorm

 

[AndroidVageta]

Pretty cool...but this is one of the few times that I just HAVE to say this...get a life dude!

 

[Tweak155]

Pretty cool...but this is one of the few times that I just HAVE to say this...get a life dude!

Being a computer programmer with little AI experience, I wonder how Chess is programmed.

I can easily think of logic for removing the pieces from the board, but programming in the rules would be a monstrous task, especially if the computer plays.

EDIT:

I half wonder if the game knows the rules that we are shown here.

 

[Dumac]

Being a computer programmer with little AI experience, I wonder how Chess is programmed.

I can easily think of logic for removing the pieces from the board, but programming in the rules would be a monstrous task, especially if the computer plays.

EDIT:

I half wonder if the game knows the rules that we are shown here.

There are tons of chess programs, so it isn't impossible.

That said, I imagine it is a major pain in the ass.

 

[JTsyo]

There aren't that many rules in chess. Movement rules for each type of piece then just a few gameplay rules.

 

[TheVrolok]

I love Lego Mindstorms. I have found memories of when it first came out in '98. Good times.

 

[LordMorpheus]

There aren't that many rules in chess. Movement rules for each type of piece then just a few gameplay rules.

Yes, it's pretty easy to make a program really good at chess just by looking ahead a number of moves, because there is a fairly small set of moves possible at any given time.

You can also store tons of games between masters, and just look up what a master did in a given situation to win the game.

It's easy to just throw a ton of processor cycles or memory (or both) at the problem and solve it.

It's one of the reasons that Go is becoming popular in this country, there are way way more moves possible in a single turn in Go than in Chess, which makes it much harder to write a good computer program for, which is something that attracts players.