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Subject: Solving Chess Game... allowed?

Author: Ulysses Omycron

Date: 04:41:06 12/29/04


Do it myself is pretty boring, since I just need to get the score for all decent
moves from the opening position and fight them with the no-decent ones, again
and again and again deeper and deeper until I get a no-decent score (from a
decent move) or a decent score (from a no-decent move) so I switch them and
start the whole process again. The problem is to define "decent", right now it's
"any move that gets a score 10 points or less lower than the best move". I'm
using Shredder 8 for the work, since I will deep search all the moves (Pruning
the no-reachable ones since *I* will only play the *ideal* moves) after the
others get "dedecented", it doesn't matter what time I have used for every
move... Though Ply 1 seems to destroy all progress, ply 9-16 seem just right.

The problem of course is that when I get very deep into the best line and
somehow it proves to be 60 points less than the next decent line, I've lost a
lot of time with it, this happens because I only get computer moves in there,
and human moves prove much better after all. The solution is to get a Big
database of games and fight the ideal moves against it, but I reach a point of
"no return" when I'm out of book with a very high score; that means the best
moves haven't been played on the human's history and I have no source of "Human
Theory" moves for that position: Dead end. In this point I may find alternate
"weaker" moves with different chess engines, but what I want is to know what
move will most likely be used against *me* once I get out of book, but I can't
do it alone.

So I thought in starting a game here at the boards, a game of chess in where you
can "takeback" a move pretty easy and change the main line just by posting the
better move on a previous post.

Doesn't it sound good? The way this forums use a thread system is just perfect
for this! I don't know how much time will it last, but I'm asking for permission
to start it.

Have a happy new year 2006, 2007 and 2008! (I bet I'm the first person in
wishing you so).



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