💡📝Sam Trenholme wrote on Sat, Sep 26, 2009 10:39 AM UTC:
Muller: That looks really good, and isn't too different from what I'm getting. Indeed, I just finished up a 12-ply look at the replies to 1. f4, and agree with ChessV 0.9.0's three favorite replies: 1. ... f5 (PV -38 millipawns), 1. ... Nd6 (PV -61 millipawns), and 1. ... c6 (PV -73 millipawns)
I’ll have my list finished up by early next week: Muller’s list also helps a lot with starting up an opening book.
Mats: The reason why we’re studying openings is so computer programs can make reasonable opening moves. It looks like you haven’t been reading this thread. We use a basic opening book to minimize the issues caused when a deterministic computer program plays a given Capablanca setup more than once.
As for human players, an opening book gives a player a pretty good idea of how to start the game. Avoiding “over-analyzed” opening books is easy in Capa setups; there are 720 different opening setups with the rooks in the corner, bishops on opposite colors, and the king on the F file. Of those, 18 have symmetry with the knights and the bishops, and the bishops closer to the center file than the knights.
There simply is no need to implement your idea to advance some pawns one square randomly, and you yourself have pointed out it causes problems in, say, the Embassy setup (RNBQKMABNR or if you insist on having the King in the F file, RNBAMKQBNR), or even your own Teutonic setup (RNBQAKMBNR). Can we please keep the discussion here on-topic without coming up with untested blue-sky ideas?
I’ll have my list finished up by early next week: Muller’s list also helps a lot with starting up an opening book.
Mats: The reason why we’re studying openings is so computer programs can make reasonable opening moves. It looks like you haven’t been reading this thread. We use a basic opening book to minimize the issues caused when a deterministic computer program plays a given Capablanca setup more than once.
As for human players, an opening book gives a player a pretty good idea of how to start the game. Avoiding “over-analyzed” opening books is easy in Capa setups; there are 720 different opening setups with the rooks in the corner, bishops on opposite colors, and the king on the F file. Of those, 18 have symmetry with the knights and the bishops, and the bishops closer to the center file than the knights.
There simply is no need to implement your idea to advance some pawns one square randomly, and you yourself have pointed out it causes problems in, say, the Embassy setup (RNBQKMABNR or if you insist on having the King in the F file, RNBAMKQBNR), or even your own Teutonic setup (RNBQAKMBNR). Can we please keep the discussion here on-topic without coming up with untested blue-sky ideas?