Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 01:20:50 03/15/05
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On March 15, 2005 at 04:00:47, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: >On March 15, 2005 at 03:51:34, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >>On March 14, 2005 at 21:55:16, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Will any of the leader of the SSDF programs be converted to play Chess960? such >>>as Junior X or Shredder X ? >>> >>>http://www.chesstigers.org/en/Announcement.html >> >>I must confess that I fail to see a need for this game. >>What I do if I get bored of some opening is to switch to another and a whole new >>world opens up. >>I have answer 1.e4 with 1...c6 for many years, but last year I got brave and >>moved the c-pawn two square forward and now my black games against 1.e4 become >>interesting and new again. >>This was radical but I did a less radical switch in the 1.d4 opening with going >>from Queen Indian to Bogo-Indian as an answer to 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 >> >>What is a game of chess? >>A big part is to try to remember something you have learned/analysed, either by >>looking it up in your memory like you do in the opening and endgame play, or >>using your intuition (tactical training) to know where to calculate. Even in the >>middlegame you use learned stuff. > >What should computerchess be? A competition in who has the biggest and fastest >look up tables? What do we have, 5-6 computertournament a year. Do you think the creativity of bookauthors get empty by this? Myself I even think this is a very interesting part of chess (to find new ideas in the opening). Or is it the basement tournaments that are your consern? The programs should be flexible enough so a user that like to run such tournament can create his own book, adjust the varation of bookuse. Enable/disable tablebase lookup etc. >That might be a challenge for humans and is of course part of >the attraction of the game of chess between people. But more interesting is >to find an optimal decision based on restricted knowledge, being creative in >situations never seen before. This is (in my eyes) the more interesting part >of the chess game, and it is, what makes computerchess programming interesting. >Thus Chess960 matches the needs of computerchess much better than variant 518. Whats up in Chess960 version 2, not allowed to use open files? From what you say I understand that tablebase are not allowed, this is good I think. For creativity in the opening, take my switch to 1.e4 c5. This is a hole new game for me and I have to use all my creativity to play it. Of course someone would go home and cram the opening, but this is their choice so I guess thats what they like to do. Odd Gunnar
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