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The only way to encourage more odds games may be to play them for money.
Exactly.
For example, Kevin, I might offer to play you for $100 with odds of two pawns. You might offer to play Bator for $100 if he gives you whatever. Then all of the spectators could wager on who wins!
It is curious that play at odds has fallen out of popularity....
Some GMs are not too proud to receive material odds matches against computers...
The Komodo team ran a few of them last year, as this was thought to be the only way of making humans competitive with their monster program. The games had various handicaps -- material, moves, moves and material --- and the results were interesting, and much more interesting than they would have been in a straight-up man vs machine match.
Handicap: less time and no opening book
there was a match in 2016 where Komodo played with 3 minutes +1 sec vs 90 + 30, and had an opening book of only 3 moves... but somehow played the first 20 moves of a Sicilian Sveshnikov and drew with GM Sergey Erenburg:
Why do they ever allow computers to play with the knowledge of opening book that humans have developed over the years? Should not the computer simply have to start thinking from move one?
Maybe there was money involved in the GM vs. computer at odds games. :) For a long time I've felt that by even 'looking' at more than one chessboard at a time, 'moving' the pieces around, etc., computers were in effect 'cheating', even though it is unavoidable for them. Banning computers from playing in events doesn't do anything about computer-assisted cheating, though.
Last edited by Kevin Pacey; Tuesday, 7th February, 2017, 01:48 PM.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
Chess seems to have the best starting position for the given pieces and their movements, IMHO. Some Chess960 starting positions are definitely worse than others, I've read long ago. Other drawbacks of Chess960 are that there would be no opening books to sell, and that merchandising and movie representation of such a board game seems harder since there is no starting position to display (the same is true for Go). A way around this is to have one set starting position for, say, 100 years (or 1 year, as Kasparov has suggested), but that would kind of negate the original major aim of Chess960.
Last edited by Kevin Pacey; Wednesday, 8th February, 2017, 10:54 PM.
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Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
I go into great detail about that, and other aspects of why chess is arguably free of arbitrariness as a board game of skill, in the following CFC blog entry of mine:
Please e-mail fs889@ncf.ca if you need a bye in rounds 6-7.
1) byes are zero points for rounds 6 & 7;
2) the winner(s) will receive the trophy and cash prize of $500 at the AGM;
3) champion(s) will take on the membership in a simultaneous exhibition after the AGM.
These pairings will change as I am expecting 5-10 byes in round 6 :o
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Pairings for Round 6. 2017 RA Club Ch:
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 5 Ramon J. Cova (2222 4.0) 15 Zachary Dukic (2078 5.0)
2 2 David Gordon (2310 4.0) 10 William G. Doubleday (2136 4.0)
3 9 Saeid Sadeghi (2149 4.0) 11 Francesco Dunne (2118 4.0)
4 12 Ben Kellar (2115 4.0) 3 Mate Marinkovic (2269 3.5)
5 1 Qiyu Zhou (2326 3.5) 8 Sam Marin (2155 3.5)
6 7 Stijn De Kerpel (2196 3.5) 4 Kevin Pacey (2225 3.5)
7 23 Dan Kearnan (1878 3.0) 6 John Upper (2212 3.0)
8 13 Dusan Simic (2100 3.0) 22 Stefan Lanceman (1880 3.0)
9 24 Alex Danilov (1843 3.0) 14 Svitlana Demchenko (2086 3.0)
10 28 Konstantin Vlasenko (1784 3.0) 17 David Fei (2022 3.0)
11 41 Romy Peters (1501 3.0) 19 Ray Kuryliw (1993 3.0)
12 29 Jan Huus (1779 3.0) 21 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1912 3.0)
13 16 Simon Kuttner (2078 2.5) 44 Victor Samuel (1377 2.5)
14 18 Sasha Solunac (2010 2.5) 46 Noah Marchildon (1360 2.5)
15 20 Jeff Groot-Lipman (1928 2.5) 37 Denis Lemieux (1563 2.5)
16 27 Gordon Ritchie (1808 2.5) 55 Andrew Svensson (1070 2.5)
17 34 Garland Best (1676 2.5) 54 Michaell Tan (1072 2.5)
18 60 Vladimir Dukkardt (800 2.5) 26 Peter Arseneau (1822 2.0)
19 30 Daniel Xu (1753 2.0) 40 Drew Metcalfe (1511 2.0)
20 39 Yves Arsenault (1546 2.0) 31 Eric Van Dusen (1742 2.0)
21 49 Jeremy Sztuka (1264 2.0) 33 Simon Perkins (1728 2.0)
22 36 Vikram Mallur (1628 2.0) 48 David Brock (1280 2.0)
23 25 Amos Kuttner (1828 1.5) 45 Yaorui Xu (1377 1.5)
24 43 Xu Rong [Caroline] Chen (1418 1.5) 32 Paul St. Pierre (1731 1.5)
25 38 Gerard Felderhof (1555 1.5) 51 Daniel Wang (1133 1.5)
26 50 Alexander Dukkardt (1229 1.5) 42 Keven Eyre (1418 1.5)
27 47 Alexander Stopic (1353 1.0) 56 Dave Westbury (1054 1.5)
28 52 Daniel Labib (1117 1.0) 58 Emil Wang (982 1.0)
29 59 Wahida Chowdhury (845 1.0) 53 Rami Labib (1080 0.5)
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