Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 12:04:41 02/08/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 14:55:57, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 08, 2003 at 14:34:17, Cary wrote: > >>If you want to make chess more exciting consider Fisher's ideas on random start >>positions, that way we can get rid of all the opening books bs. >>Or add two extra knights and pawns. > >And why not add in dice to determine how many squares a queen may move? And have >the participants take shots of their favorite liquor each time they move? > >I think part of the prerequisite is that we should not change the game. The same >strategies that have worked for decades should not all of the sudden become >trash. > >One of the reasons we see a lot of draws by agreement today is because the >players don't want to embark on that complex position and really have to work, >so they look at the board and think, "wow, this is really complex and >unclear...draw?" Do you think randomizing the pieces in the opening is going to >help that? We do not have more draws by agreement today than any other time in history. Chess was always like this and it won't change. Several rules have been tried and all of them failed, miserably, since they were too artificial. Hubner and Rogoff in the University Olympic Games In the 70's wanted to draw. They were not allowed because the agreement was too soon. They came back to the board, pissed off, and played something like 1.Nf3 Nc6 1.Ng1 Na5 2. Nf3 Nc6 etc. and one of them claimed the draw after three repetitions. They were, obviously, trying to make a point, besides trying to make half a point :-) Miguel
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