Thread: Dave’s latest will I make it to a game this year thread

I keep reading the title of this thread as "Dave's last will and testament".

Wishful thinking.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Ah, you're right. Wasn't thinking of other pieces being on board. This is why I suck at chess.

Same here.

Originally Posted by BroncoNut

Dont take your hand off of the piece until you get your opponents reaction. I do that and I win at chess

Chess is cool. The anticipation and influence is such a fun way to go. The only thing I do not like about chess is that there are a finite amount of moves/strategies. Granted there are a whole million more than I want to learn, but as per the board there are only so many moves and resulting outcomes from such. Not saying I have the capacity to know them all. Just that it is finite.

I like things that have endless abilities and outcomes, one that cannot possibly be learned over years. There in lies my problem with chess. In a very shallow frame of mind it is a game of time. The more time one spends within it the stronger they are. That holds true to everything, no doubt. Endless outcomes and possibilities are not a direct result of time.

The problem with chess is that openings are rote.

Originally Posted by underrated29

Chess is cool. The anticipation and influence is such a fun way to go. The only thing I do not like about chess is that there are a finite amount of moves/strategies. Granted there are a whole million more than I want to learn, but as per the board there are only so many moves and resulting outcomes from such. Not saying I have the capacity to know them all. Just that it is finite.

I like things that have endless abilities and outcomes, one that cannot possibly be learned over years. There in lies my problem with chess. In a very shallow frame of mind it is a game of time. The more time one spends within it the stronger they are. That holds true to everything, no doubt. Endless outcomes and possibilities are not a direct result of time.

There are more possible positions on a chessboard than any computer could ever compute over hundreds and hundreds of lifetimes. The possibilities essentially are endless in terms of what any human could ever figure out in their life.

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

The problem with chess is that openings are rote.

Chess960 solves this, and I kinda prefer it to standard chess.

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

Any news on when Mr Biden is planning to open up America for Travel?

This is really the only thing that is stopping me booking at present.

Just got my ESTA approved

I worked at a call center for US Passports about 2 1/2 years ago. One of the biggest lessons that many of our callers learned the hard way is that you should go to the authoritative website run by those who actually create and enforce the rules, as well as having access to the most up-to-date info on the entry requirements of the country they are traveling to, state.gov. Even the most legitimate travel agencies aren't tied at the hip to the US State Department and may therefore have outdated information. Other website that you'll randomly come across during your web search are scams.

To make a long story short, a politically astute Autistic friend of mine was able to find what appears to be your country’s version of our state.gov website. If you're going to spend $1,000s to come over here, I'd urge you to go there to get all of your info:

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-ad...y-requirements

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

There are more possible positions on a chessboard than any computer could ever compute over hundreds and hundreds of lifetimes. The possibilities essentially are endless in terms of what any human could ever figure out in their life.

I know it is extremely complex as the decision tree grows and its response, but I did not realize it is endless. I did not know that it is more than any computer could ever compute either. For some reason I was under the impression that the computers had it sorted and that is why bobby fisher was such a big thing, because they did not have all the programming in at the time he smoked it.

Originally Posted by underrated29

I know it is extremely complex as the decision tree grows and its response, but I did not realize it is endless. I did not know that it is more than any computer could ever compute either. For some reason I was under the impression that the computers had it sorted and that is why bobby fisher was such a big thing, because they did not have all the programming in at the time he smoked it.

Chess has only been solved for situations with 7 or fewer pieces total on the board. It's called the tablebase. They are working on 8 right now, but every extra piece exponentially increases the number of solutions. They are still years from solving with 8 pieces. And from what I understand, there isn't currently enough computing power that exists in the world to solve from a new game with all 32 pieces. They probably won't even solve for 9 or 10 pieces in our lifetime.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

There are more possible positions on a chessboard than any computer could ever compute over hundreds and hundreds of lifetimes. The possibilities essentially are endless in terms of what any human could ever figure out in their life.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...u-1318781.html

Woot!

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

The problem with chess is that openings are rote.

But the openings have crazy names and almost function as fighting stances/have their own mythos!

Chess was the first anime!

Boom!

#genius

Fischer was definitely a genius for his time. He actually came to hate chess because of how much it relied on just memorizing all the openings, which he did for all the known openings at the time.

Chess 960, which I referenced earlier, was actually invented by Fischer to combat this. It's also called Fischer Random Chess. Basically you scramble the 8 pieces on the back rank before the game, and it creates an entirely different opening. It gets the 960 game because there are 960 possible board configurations to start the game. This madness it impossible to learn the openings for every single possible opening state.

Some argue he'd be the GOAT today

I'm a savage because I believe speed chess to be the better version of the game

Originally Posted by King87

Some argue he'd be the GOAT today

I'm a savage because I believe speed chess to be the better version of the game

Any top player today would probably smoke Fischer just because so much more theory is known now. But if Fischer were born today and had access to all the current info, he very well could be the best.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Any top player today would probably smoke Fischer just because so much more theory is known now. But if Fischer were born today and had access to all the current info, he very well could be the best.

Oh I agree - prime Fischer pulled from history vs the monsters today wouldn't be fair

But if all things were equal, Fischer goin':

Clap!

that!

AsS!