Author: jefkaan
Date: 09:24:41 04/01/02
In previous research in has been found impossible to find a significant opening advantage in all possible cases; and even when such an advantage would be found, of say about half a pawn up till one pawn, then black could force the endgame to become in such a way that white cannot win (eg trying to get unequal bishops, etc.). However, with another approach i've recently found that white still get a forced win; this approach is in line with middlegame strategy as already known to Euwe (majority attack) and for comps can be programmed as follows: 1) castle on same side as opponent 2) play the opening in such a way that white has one pawn less on the kingside, and one pawn more the other side. This doesn't mean the kingside is weaker, as usually it means an open line for the rook, eg. the f line. 3) advance the majority pawns gradually, preferably as a chain, until in the endgame a pawn can be promoted (or achieving a promotion threat in such a way that black is losing). 4) finish off the game. Question now is, how to achieve such positions from the opening ? Well initially, using Crafty to analyze the endpositions after the opening lines, i couldnt get any significant advantage which isnt surprising as Crafty doesnt give a big numeric advantage for such a pawn majority ; however, with Tiger14 i've found that it's possible to achieve such positions in almost all cases (in other cases tactics also give a win for white). Ofcourse i have kept this revolutionary method secret for a while, also as it took quite some time to analyze all endpositions of my 10 million-pos opening book, but now, after a few months of number crunching i can let the world know that chess has been solved. To keep this secret i haven't played with this method on Internet yet, but have done some off line testing and using Tiger with agressive settings and my 'killer'book achieved wins for white in 99% of the time, usually within 200 moves, against all top engines, Fritz, Tiger, Gambit Tiger, etc.Now ofcourse you guys are curious which opening move is the best. Well, surprise, surprise, its not e4, not d4, but it is..: 1. Nf3 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So Kramnik was right after all.. Coming months i'm intending to demonstrate this method on ICC (my comp of 1000Mhz is fast enough to win from any opponent with white) and gradually expand the book with deeper lines; in such a way in future the forced win for white will be achieved even faster (although it still might take more than 100 moves against the top engines ofcourse). best regards, Jefk PS my opening book with the winning lines will be sold on a copy protected Cd-Rom for about $ 150; considering the 'historical' result i don't think this is a very high price; considering the expected high demand for this Cd-Rom i'm currently in the process of printing 50,000 of them as first edition. (people who want to order straightaway their copy may do so by sending an email to kec@hotmail.com notifying in which way they like to pay, ie check, money order, or cash).
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