Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 08:51:16 01/07/04
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On January 07, 2004 at 11:35:05, Ed Trice wrote: >Hi Bob, > >You underestimate the SIZE of Gothic Chess. I have been playing the game almost >every day since the year 2000, and the opening permutations for pawn >displacements alone can keep Gothic Chess books from saturating the play for >perhaps 100 years. > >Just take a look at... > >http://www.GothicChess.org/openings.html > >On January 07, 2004 at 11:06:27, Bob Durrett wrote: >> >>That will only give you a temporary respite. Soon, the bookmakers will have >>opening books for Gothic Chess too. Then you will have to dream up a new >>variant. The wolves will always be snapping at your heels. >> >>: ) >> >>Bob D. Perhaps it is true that I underestimate the SIZE of Gothic Chess. But it may also be true that you underestimate the skills and innovativeness of the serious bookmakers. : ) Generally, if many games are recorded and published then the bookmakers will then have the materials they need to create books. The maximum possible quality of such books will depend on the quality of the game collections. [Garbage in, garbage out.] Unfortunately, the inability of the bookmakers to obtain credible published ratings of the players would be a disadvantage. The absence of credible published ratings would force the bookmakers to analyze the games to obtain estimates of the playing strengths of the players. This might take awhile, but it seems do-able at least in principle. The games of strong players would be given more credibility than the games of the weaker players, so the pre-set probabilities for play of the opening moves would be adjusted accordingly. If extremely strong gothic chess-playing programs were to ever become available, then there would be the possibility of using those strong machines to create some new good openings. The quality of the openings from those games, and hence the quality of opening books made from those games, would depend on the quality of the programming of the engines. One of the positive traits of humans is their innovativeness. A resolute determined high-class programmer may be able to find a way to make an engine which played Gothic chess well in the opening. Bob D.
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