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Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Dec 2, 2004 07:21 PM UTC:
I could surely do Switching Chess; I think I've got a decent handle on
that game.  And I'm willing to try more than one game.  I'm not sure
that my experience with Switching Chess means I'm ready for Rococo,
though.  But, since Tony said he's willing to play Rococo, how about Tony
and George play Rococo (original version), and I play Switching Chess with
either Tony or George, or both.

However, please note, that I do consider a pawn in Switching Chess to be
worth somewhat more than 1.0, and would be weighing moves under that
hypothesis.  Switching makes pawns more mobile, and able to get to the
eigth rank in circumstances where they would otherwise not be able to. 
And, since pawn promotion is usually decisive in the endgame, I would
seriously consider trading a Knight for two pawns, if I felt that it gave
me some tempo.

Tony Quintanilla wrote on Thu, Dec 2, 2004 10:08 PM UTC:
How about this line-up: Rococo, Quintanilla-Duke; Switching Chess, Strong-Duke; Anti-King II, Quintanilla-Strong? Now, hopefully there will be kibbitzing! I would note that in polling for Game Courier Tournament #2, Anti-King II has 8 votes, Switching has 7 votes, and Rococo has 6. Greg, perhaps your interesting comment on Pawns in Switching can go in as a kibbitz comment when you start?

George Duke wrote on Fri, Dec 3, 2004 02:22 AM UTC:
I'm finishing my fourth win at Rococo now in GC; one against Lavieri is
not recording. I think one annotated game played would be worth 10 stupid
variations such as adding rifle piece to a perfectly-designed game like
Rococo. That is Robert Fischer's main point in comments under Recognized
Chess Variants and I take the same offense he does at designers derelict
in their duties. Switching Chess, Strong and I are 1-1, so it would be
tie-breaker. I'll save comments for the games you start.  A tournament
you would not want concurrent Kibbitz for players to see, but as I see it
this is to explicate rather unknown games.

Tony Quintanilla wrote on Fri, Dec 3, 2004 04:37 AM UTC:
The games are starting! One question: should kibbitzing allow comments that
are based on computer analysis, such as Zillions of Games or Chess V? I
would be inclined to say, yes, as long as that is made clear.

Antoine Fourrière wrote on Fri, Dec 3, 2004 04:43 AM UTC:
How about five moves without computer analysis or ten moves with computer
analysis? Let the kibitzers take some deep thinking by themselves too!

George Duke wrote on Sun, Dec 5, 2004 10:53 PM UTC:
The Open Kibbitz games are under way in Game Courier and participants are
free to use computer analysis.  Tony Quintanilla suggested the idea in
Dec.1 Comment where his last sentence refers to 'what I believe Kasparov
suggested for human-computer competition after being crushed by Deep Blue
(in 1997)'.It entails using computer advice throughout game and match,
and they call Kasparov's idea 'Advanced Chess'. There were yearly 
tournaments of Advanced Chess in Spain, but I am not sure they held one in 2004.

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