Trying to think of a totally inane subject for a pointless thread.

How about analyzing the theory behind fools mate?

@SavageAntarctican
I like that idea, humans need to get started on that problem. Short of quantum computers on the task, it can be knocked out in, what, ten billion years?

@clousems ok

I'm not going to relent from the idea of extending opening theory back to move zero, the starting position, I'm going to look for a novelty there. It should be there, maybe with a wormhole or a gateway.

Umm...
@SavageAntarctican Any particular reason for 2... d5?? Seems to me like 2...Qh4++ would be better for black

@morphyms1817 You can extend it as far back as possible. For example, move -15:

You reach the starting position (after move 0 is over) only after 16 moves.

It is easily possible to invent so many knight tangos that return the knights back to their original squares...

@clousems You can transpose to that position in many different ways (the position in post #143).

#146 should be kept under wraps from the 1,000,000 horsey crowd, lichess would never be the same.

But im going to create a study for this opening and like you said, I'll begin with move -15.

@morphyms1817 No, begin with move -1000.

@SavageAntarctican Fool's Mate occurs on move 2. There aren't that many transpositions for a two move checkmate.

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INANE CONTEST:
What will be the current height of Everest when its measured by the scientific expedition this week?

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