On Aug 23, 2:59 am, Sanny wrote:

... Bh6??

This move just gives away a piece for no reason.
Even blindfold, I could see that. Could this be a
case of operator error, or a software malfunction?

There was no move which could save Black at this point. I found The
other move of King to save the fork was also not as good.


Even so, Black should put up his strongest defense
and not give away anything; White must be forced to
"pry it from cold, dead hands".



And how the Queen could be trapped please tell those moves?


It's complicated on account of all the other things
going on. White can play p-a3, removing the b4
square as a safe retreat. Generally speaking, the
Rook will do the attacking of the Queen, and so
Black will get at least a Rook for his Queen.

Going after the *undeveloped* Rook on h8 makes
it harder to trap the Queen, if not impossible, since
the Bishop was the preferred piece to interpose at
d2 on any Queen check at c3 or b4 as she flees
the White Rook's attacks or even an attack by one
of the White Knights.


When I tried Jester several months ago, it played
very well and never gave away any pieces like you
say it did against your program. So what is this
Ludochess you keep talking about, and when you
test your own program, do you avert the problems
by playing the program on your own computer, as
one might do with Fritz or Shredder? On my
computer, the Java applet is very slow to load and
has intermittent "issues", like speeding up and
slowing down, or just freezing.


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