George Duke wrote on Fri, Apr 30, 2010 03:19 PM UTC:
The Contingency Pawn actually expands opening possibilities. There is a
world championship on right now,
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6290. So far in four
games, what did they open with? game 1, Pawn-d4; game 2, Pawn-d4; game 3,
Pawn-d4; game 4, Pawn-d4. How many CVs would have such channeled same-old
opening obsession? Maybe none. If Anand and Topalov were playing Great
Shatranj, they would not be duplicating openings from last decade and
century. If A. and T. were playing representative Schoolbook Chess for the
world championship instead of their particular entrenched-orthodoxy strong
Queen Shatranj that everybody knows and loves/hates, there would not be the
same first fifteen moves for the thousandth time. Specific Contingency Pawn
explained this thread on 8x8 can have openings N-a3, N-c3, N-f3, and N-h3.
Each one is different. All four would be used, and 'd4' or 'e4' would
really be illegal. 'd4' is illegal because Pawn cannot move until her
piece behind has. Opening books become passe one way or another.
Computers a while will waffle helplessly. The best players may reside in
unknown hinterlands, not cosmopolitan Europe. The lure of unknown futures
ripe with chance, fraught with challenge, not robotic control's electronic
feudalism under which we mostly live bent on absolute homogenization.
Rhymie-stymie: 'Collect' proves correct moves connect grooves.
