Complexity of retrograde and helpmate chess problems: Even cooperative chess is hard
We prove PSPACE-completeness of two classic types of Chess problems when generalized to n × n boards. A “retrograde” problem asks whether it is possible for a position to be reached from a natural starting position, i.e., whether the position is “valid” or “legal” or “reachable”. Most real-world ret...
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Language: | English |
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2022
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/143960 |