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Aberg variation of Capablanca's Chess. Different setup and castling rules. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

H.G.Muller wrote on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 05:39 PM UTC:

Well, let us take one particular position then: the opening position of
FIDE Chess. You maintain that the outcome of any game starting from this
position is fixed? A quick peek in the FIDE database of Grand Master games
should be sufficient to convince you that you are very, very wrong about
this. Games starting from this position are lost, won and drawn in
enormous numbers. There is no pre-determined outcome at all.

Computers that use the statistical approach, such as Rybka, are
incomparably strong. Humans, using the way you describe, simply cannot
compete. These are the facts of life.