Author: David Blackman
Date: 22:06:19 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? Yes and no. Many of the "standard" openings are popular only due to fashion. There are alternatives just as good or better for many of them, that are hardly ever played. But the computers can still be fooled occasionally even at 12 hours per move. Given 500 years, the combined analytical power of all the worlds Grandmasters can be pretty awesome. Especially as many of the more recent GMs use computers to help them analyse.
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