Author: Mike S.
Date: 19:45:23 11/16/02
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On November 13, 2002 at 20:44:16, Russell Reagan wrote: >(...) >Basically it is an attempt to remove white's first move advantage. How it would >work in chess is that (for example) white plays 1. e4, and then black may either >play a move as normal, or black may choose to switch sides and play as white >from the position after 1. e4. So Black is the one to choose, only once after White's first move (if I unterstand that correctly). And if he chooses to swap, it's still Black's move I assume, IOW the game would continue normally now, with the same player (now having Black) moving again, against his own first move... I wonder if that removes the first move advantage completely, or if Black would have a slight advantage here. Probably White would like to play moves like 1.a3 or 1.b3... After "standard" first moves, it's obvious that Black will swap. Transpositions into known variants would be the major issue, at least in the first time when the swap rule would be used. The rule could be simultated against a program (Master vs computer), i.e. by letting the program it swap if the evaluation is to it's disadvantage after White's first move... but that would require it to switch the book of (could be switched on again after move 1). Computer opening books can be superior in spotting all transpositions and also "reversed color" variants which would probably be important here. Regards, M.Scheidl
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