Author: John Hatcher
Date: 10:10:14 02/19/01
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On February 19, 2001 at 07:44:30, John Wentworth wrote: >This is just an observance and may be completely wrong, but it seems that when a >program castles Queen side his chances of losing go up by a lot. Every time I >see a program do this, I say to myself he's going to lose and I bet more than >60% of the time he does. This may be a problem with humans vs humans as well, I >don't know. Anyone else notice this? There is a "chess" reason for this, quite apart from any computer reason. If players castle on opposite sides (one King-side, one Queen-side) the chances of losing AND of winning go up. Opposite side castling creates a sharp, tactical position with violent pawn storms and piece attacks. That's true for humans and for computers. John
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