@Alpha_Zero_Supergm. "but why only the scandi and the alekhine why not the mainlines" What?
All I did was ask a question. Why do I get dislikes for that? Should I lie and say that I do understand what he/she is saying?
Looks like you've recently become afraid of the Italian opening, Comrade Marcus
At TCEC they impose slightly balanced openings to prevent all draws.
The same was done in checkers to reduce draw rate.
The same was done in checkers to reduce draw rate.
@tpr. Are you talking to me? If so I don't want this because of "draw rates decreasing" but to give lesser popular and lesser good openings a chance to shine in a new type of format. And I don't get why so many people dislike my post.
another idea would be a tournament whereby you only get to use an opening once in the whole tournament...
as a handicap i'd prefer this format of banlist to the time handicaps formats like blitz, bullet, ultrabullet etc or the antichess variations or even to the scrambled pieces format(chess960)... and I think it would be just as good in teaching chess as solving puzzles...
as a handicap i'd prefer this format of banlist to the time handicaps formats like blitz, bullet, ultrabullet etc or the antichess variations or even to the scrambled pieces format(chess960)... and I think it would be just as good in teaching chess as solving puzzles...
These days, with incredibly strong computers, it’s no longer necessary to find grandmasters playing a given opening for us to develop theory for the opening.
Before strong computers, grandmaster play was the only way to have established theory for a given line. Many readers may be familiar with the story of the very wealthy Issac Rice, who payed a lot of money to have grandmasters play his favorite line (1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5 7. exd5 Bd6 8. 0-0 — Note that, in Lichess games, 8. O-O actually has gotten better results for White than the usual 8. d4). While the piece sacrifice was ultimately decided to not be sound (Capablanca could not beat Marshall with the white pieces in this line — note that these Rice Gambit exhibition games are the only games where Capa ever played the King’s Gambit with the White pieces), it was interesting to see how early 20th century Chess masters would play when given the line.
These days, Rice could had more simply set up the position in Stockfish and have it play a number of games until coming to realize that White is down two pawns and that it’s really not a sound gambit. [1]
To Rice’s credit, he funded a number of Chess tournaments where players could and did play any opening they wanted to, and was one of the earliest very generous Chess patrons, allowing many grandmasters to play Chess full time.
[1] There’s technical issues that Stockfish tends to like to play a single move in any given position, but I work around this with a custom client which enables a feature called “MultiPV” and then telling Stockfish to play at random any move with 50 centipawns in value compared to the strongest move, so that, given 10 Stockfish-vs-Stockfish games, we get 10 unique scores.
Before strong computers, grandmaster play was the only way to have established theory for a given line. Many readers may be familiar with the story of the very wealthy Issac Rice, who payed a lot of money to have grandmasters play his favorite line (1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5 7. exd5 Bd6 8. 0-0 — Note that, in Lichess games, 8. O-O actually has gotten better results for White than the usual 8. d4). While the piece sacrifice was ultimately decided to not be sound (Capablanca could not beat Marshall with the white pieces in this line — note that these Rice Gambit exhibition games are the only games where Capa ever played the King’s Gambit with the White pieces), it was interesting to see how early 20th century Chess masters would play when given the line.
These days, Rice could had more simply set up the position in Stockfish and have it play a number of games until coming to realize that White is down two pawns and that it’s really not a sound gambit. [1]
To Rice’s credit, he funded a number of Chess tournaments where players could and did play any opening they wanted to, and was one of the earliest very generous Chess patrons, allowing many grandmasters to play Chess full time.
[1] There’s technical issues that Stockfish tends to like to play a single move in any given position, but I work around this with a custom client which enables a feature called “MultiPV” and then telling Stockfish to play at random any move with 50 centipawns in value compared to the strongest move, so that, given 10 Stockfish-vs-Stockfish games, we get 10 unique scores.
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