Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:36:08 12/19/99
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On December 19, 1999 at 18:30:23, Charles Unruh wrote: >It's still chess, the same elements exist time, space, force, and development. >Still middlegame, opening, and endgame. Kasparov himself made a statement about >how he would fair against other GM's in random chess, because he has been >accused so much of winning because of opening preparation. He said that he >would be the best because random chess will favor the better tactical player, >and of course he claimed that the best tactical player was him :). Kramnik >agreed with him though, it would be interesting to see at least 1 40/2 game in >random chess against a GM. I have a bet going with an old bud from my tour in >Vietnam. This is a dangerous bet to make. Computer evaluations are _not_ tailored to random chess positions. IE a weakness at g3 is something else entirely when bishops are moved... I have looked at this a bit, but it is difficult to handle. IE some of the 'wild' variants on servers ought to be easy for the computer, but they aren't because the eval is so wrong...
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