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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 Sun, Apr 27, 2008 11:22 AM UTC:

Hans Aberg:
| Change the values radically, and see what happens...
What do you mean? Nothing happens, of course. KPK positions that are won,
will remain won. What did you expect? That they become draws when I reduce
the Pawn value, or become lost positions when I say that a Pawn has a
negative value???
| It is true of all chess positions, not only end-game.
Except for the unfortunate detail that threredo not exist anyChess
positions other than some late end-games and a few mate-in-N problems that
are known to be won...
| But the point system will say that KQ will win over KP unless there 
| are some special circumstances, not that it will win in a certain 
| percentage if players of the same strength are making some random 
| changes in their play.
Only a quantitative measure can establish if the circumstances are
special, or not. If they would occur 90% of the time, I would call them
common, not special.
| Only that the 'winning chances' does not refer to a percentage of 
| won games of equal strength players making random variations, which 
| is what you are testing. It refers to something else, which can be 
| hard to capture giving its development history.
So in your believe system, if a certain position, when played by expert
players to the best of their ability, is won in 90% of the cases by white,
it might still be that black has 'the better chances' in this position?
If it is, this would be a very good conclusion to end this discussion
with. I don't see how going for such positions with 'better chances'
(guided by piece values) in play would win you many games, though...