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H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Nov 19, 2008 07:49 PM UTC:
It sounds a lot like what I am already doing. Except that I usually do not
bother with ZoG, but configure Fairy-Max to play the game, or make a
dedicated engine by adapting Joker. For on-line play I am developing the
Internet Chess Server now. Using the material-imbalance-self-play method I
have, for instance, determined the piece values for Capablanca, Knightmate,
Great Shatranj, Falcon Chess, and Superchess. I have tens of thousands of
comp-comp games on file for these variants, which could be filtered for
interesting checkmates (e.g. early in the game). Only opening theory is of
no interest to me; even my normal Chess engine plays without opening book.