Author: jefkaan
Date: 11:07:13 11/21/02
1) A few weeks ago someone came with the suggestion to change the stalemate rule into mate; ok, in such a case i think chess can be solved (presuming stalemating the king is a win for the side with pieces and not a loss). 2) although after a few decades i'm convinced the best chess computers, and maybe some superKramnik humans will play 99.9% draws, the result for hte remaining .1 % will not be evenly divided between white and black; in fact the winning chances for white will be probably amost twice as high as for black, i suspect. 3) as the above fact, advantage for white, increasing a/o as a result of improving opening theory, is a deficiency in Tpr/Elo calculations (as they don't distinguish between white/black) which should be improved; or..: 4) with some other reasoning one could say the advantage for white is not fair in chess; in Go for example, black as first players has an advantage, but in the end-result this is compensated with the socalled 'komi' rule. In chess therefore white should be handicapped, eg. playing with 3horses/bishop instead of horse/bishop, replacing one rook by a bishop, or ... (my favorite): 5) leaving out the pawn at f3 !!! Now if y'all hackers start programming this variants with some nice inline assembling code for attack tables and so forth we simple amateur chess players can all be happy. And finally, well yep indeed this message was not about solving chess, but more about some new chess variants; but the heading 'solving chess' came up some time ago, and seemed to attract more readers :)
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