Author: Don Dailey
Date: 13:38:20 04/29/98
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On April 29, 1998 at 16:03:26, blass uri wrote: > >I think there should be 2 lists >one with opening book of the commercial programs and one >that all the games begin with 3 random moves of both sides and after >it the computers play2 games with opposite colours after the 3 random >moves >for example after 1.f3 a5 2.kf2 g6 d4 d5. or what random choice will be This is not a bad idea, it's similar to what they do in international checkers. But there are problems (there always will be with any system). I think this system would have a slight equalizing effect because some of these random selections will produce positions with one side having a huge advantage, and thus each side is likely to score a point. For example in the worst case, Mate in 2 can happen before the opening has finished being selected! A modification of your idea is to form a list of all the reasonable positions. Like in checkers, this list would probably have to modified over time as new things were learned about each position. But going 6 ply into the game would produce a pretty huge list! Maybe 4 or 5 ply is better. By the way, A computer would be a natural candidate for making the original list selection. One of the top micro's could search each position (throwing out transpositions) to some relatively deep level and note the ones with scores close to zero. I'll bet some exciting chess would result from these essentially unknown positions! But the fischer setup is almost as good and a lot easier to manage. It may turn out that some of these positions are not very well balanced either, I wonder if anyone has done any work to figure this out? I doubt any one of these positions contain quick tactical wins but it's possible that some positions would be much more difficult to play than others, certainly more so than the current opening difference for white and black. - Don
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