That has chances. It would be a game changer for some. Some programs have little opening knowledge and more midgame and endgame knowledge. They don't encode the opening knowledge, because they can use a book and it speeds up the program. However, some of us have opening knowledge in the engines. We would gain some (at least temporary) advantage.kranium wrote:Avoid all this mess...
let the engines play the openings!
We take away the endings via TBs...
We take away the openings..
Why?
These powerful engines are capable of playing the whole game and beating any human, no matter what opening
It's pretentious IMO that humans claim to know better than 3200 ELO engines
Some may say it will be boring...no way!
I think it would fascinating to see what openings lines they chose...
from my experience we'd see a good variety, Ruy Lopez, Queens Gambit, Sicilian, etc.
Some may say 'too many duplicate games',
but several LTC matches have been run with 100s of games and 0 duplicates
I say let the engines play!
You know, the more I think about it, the more I like it. A no book tournament. Norman, I think this might be the best idea you have ever had.