Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:39:33 07/13/01
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On July 12, 2001 at 15:35:47, Larry Oliver wrote: What you are asking is kind of: "can my kid when he grows up and i teach him chess without learning him openings, can he invent his own openings and if so, if he plays 1.e4 doesn't that make 1.e4 a sound opening?" >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? Your basic assumption is wrong. Chessprograms are beginners in opening. We even dislike that much how they play openings, that every chessprogrammer is doing a lot of effort to blindfolded play known theory as it can't invent it itself. Nowadays usually a chessprogrammer doesn't even make that himself anymore.
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