Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 00:36:54 01/23/04
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On January 23, 2004 at 01:18:59, Ed Trice wrote: >Hi Keith, > > >> >>Keep it up and you'll need to retract your statement - "Imagine that, a fun game >> with no opening theory, and the creative mind with a strong will to persevere >>actually wins. Isn't that what chess is supposed to be about?" > >You might want to take another quick look at.... > >http://www.GothicChess.org/ic.html > >There are 32,099,674,107,692,140,366,789,953,222,888,490,987,180,838,400,000,000 >positions without a piece coming off the board. > >I think 7500 is a lot smaller than this :) I think it's already a big advantage to know 500 opening moves IMHO, random settled pieces at the beginning is way better to avoid opening theory ...
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