Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:18:12 06/22/03
Go up one level in this thread
On June 22, 2003 at 09:05:16, Dana Turnmire wrote: >Even as a lower class tournament player I remember going over my favorite >English Opening, Orthodox Defense (Lasker Variation), or Caro-Kann Defense >racking my brains trying to remember every variation I might run into. At the >professional level it must be maddening. The strange paradox is computer chess >may actually be the stimulus that kills classical chess as the mainstream >popular form. > >Now that even grandmasters are starting to be dominated by desktop computer >programs what is there left to be accomplished? Computers may very well prove >to be just as dominating in FRC as Classical chess but at least the computers >will have to start at an even playing field without storing millions of opening >moves that would be impossible for any human to memorize in order to avoid >falling into a trap or some huge disadvantage before move 10. I'm sure >classical chess will always be played but I sense FRC will replace it sometime >in the future. > >The real losers will be the publishers of Openings Manuals. One question. How >long will it be before an opening manual is published on Fischer Random Chess >Openings (FRCO 1)? I think that the influence of opening book is not so big. At least with white it is easy to get the opponent out of book in a few moves and get an equal position. Uri
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.