Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:02:16 07/12/01
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On July 12, 2001 at 15:35:47, Larry Oliver wrote: >Starting with its book turned off and left to its own devices, could todays top >programs on a very fast computer with say 12 hours per move think time, invent >the standard openings? If so, that would seem to prove the old standard openings >are completely sound. If not, considering how good modern programs/machines are, >would this not seem to indicate something is wrong with the openings? Opening theory is a huge corpus that as a tremendous amount of creativity, effort, and experience invested in it. If you have a computer travel down an extablished line, it might think of something new, but if you start it for the root it probably won't invent a new opening that's good. Computers will tend to stick with very stable and solid stuff if you let them think from the root position. You might see 1. e4 c5, but it isn't especially likely. You won't see something like 1. e4 e5 2. f4 unless the computer has had rocks dumped into it. bruce
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