Author: Pedro Gomes
Date: 03:27:47 03/15/05
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On March 15, 2005 at 04:20:50, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >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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