Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:48:31 06/05/04
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On June 05, 2004 at 03:49:33, francis wrote: >"In FRC, just before the start of any game, both players' pieces on their >respective back rows receive an identical random shuffle, with the prerequisites >that one rook has to be on the left and the other rook on the right of the king >and, one bishop has to be on a light-colored square and the other on a dark >square. White and Black have identical positions. In FRC there are 960 starting >positions, the classical chess starting position plus 959 others. " > >will this cause a lot of trouble for the computers? No, it won't. >certainly storage of 960 times the space is easy enough. it is ony a matter of >time before the data is calculated - then they will cream us much more easily >than in normal chess! I am not sure about "much more easily", but if you write "just as easily" I would probably agree. Even in classical chess, computers don't have any advantage over humans in the opening. They are better at remembering exact lines, but they have no understanding of the plans and and ideas behind the openings. One of the advantages of top GMs over computers is that they have a very deep understanding of the middlegames reached after the popular openings, achieved by studying hundreds or thousands of games. Tord
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