Author: adam wilks
Date: 12:18:42 02/04/05
I was reading some information from the net today about the origins of chess. Some of what i already knew, but most of the rules were different as opposed today. On a different matter, i think R.J.Fischer is correct in introducing his Fischer random chess variant as it allows for more creativity in chess and there are hardly any well known openings lines to follow deeply enough to set up a position favourable for white. Only Bobby would disagree at this point. Then again, would anyone agree that todays chess isn`t the chess you were taught when you were young. As a low range common pc with fritz 8 installed on it can easily draw/beat a grandmaster by a ratio of 6:4 or 7:3 as its opening book stretches up to 25 moves. This number just seems ludicurous as the fairly able chess player is "trying" to follow the supposedly laid out rules out to move 25. I strongly feel that computers lack positional understanding in chess yet have crossed the line in defeating a number of gms over the years as they never feel thirsty or tired and are endlessly working calculators with no personality. Humans have made a machine which can outwit us in calculation ,yet humans cant program them to complete the simplest tasks of taking out the garbage or putting the cat out. Im not saying that humans are dumb, on the contary i think their far more intelligent as they are the creators of these calculators. I personally think that people on ICC at quarter to midnight or in Central Park in mid-afternoon smoking pipes with whiskey or wine. Should resuscitate the old chess rules back to life. Ofcourse, you computer chess programmers/enthusiasts might not be too happy with this. But i sincerely hope you are. If you were to write a program with the old rules, you might encounter problems with the one sqaure pawn move at the beginning. Or the 1 square bishop diagonal move. If the piece powers became limited or reduced as opposed to the unlimited queen, bishop, rook moves in todays modern game. Then the pc would fail to understand the strategical and positional elements of chess. As positions might certainly become blocked and congested. I think this is a good thing as it will slow down computer chess progress as humans deserve the accalaide of chess titles not computers. More importantly, this might be representing a real life Hundred years war between France and Britan in comparison to the ugly technologically evil wars happening in the world today.
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