Chess Match: Shady Bill vs. Skybird

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Shady Bill

1) Try to get away from main lines quickly, knowing their opening theory is most likely much better than mine 2) I try to bog them down in horse manure. kneedeep, dirty, smelly manure.

Thats what I do against computers, to avoid their opening library. That worked wiht table computers in the 80s and 90s. Today databses for endgames and openigns are so huge that it is pratically not possible to make a move that ahsd not been calculated.

Thats why some pro players - including Carlsen for example - argue we should switch to randomised setups in chess, where on the 1st and 8th row all pieces are randomly shuffled (but symmetrical via their opposing counterparts at the other end of the board). That way, the whole known opening theory would be completed invalidated.


Luxury problems of star players. Pffft...