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

Anonymous wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 01:10 PM UTC:

Hans Aberg:
| As I said, the outcome is decided by the best playing from both sides. 
| So if one starts to play poorly in the face of a material advantage, 
| that is inviting a loss.
We still don't seem to connect. What gave you the impression I advocated
to play poorly? Problem is that even with your best play, it might be a
loss. And as it is an end leaf of your search tree, which is limited by
the time control, you have no time to analyze it until checkmate, or in
fact analyze it at all. You have to judge in under a second if you are
prepared to take your chances in this position, as the opponent can play
other moves from the position actually on the board than those leading to
this one, so you have 200 positions that are just as likely you will end
up in. So if you want to spend more than a second of thought on each of
those 200 positions, your flag will be down even before you move.

So you will have a serious problem: 3 minutes to judge 200 positions, 198
of them not being checkmates, so you cannot be 100% sure that they are
won, and each of them needing about 100 hours of analysis to make 90% sure
what the outcome will be...