Quote (thesnipa @ May 16 2018 05:33pm)
interesting answer. i'm american, born and raised. never left the country. my sig is filled with irony you missed.
your premise makes no sense, a statistical analysis of what works on a board would be. expanding the board without a reason isn't really accomplishing anything more than setting an unrelated and random board size or even shape. why not study what would happen on a L shaped board, or what would happen if a queen could only travel an odd number of spaces?
buddy.
Oh ok , I am sorry for my mistake.
Scientists are interested in chess in a linear fashion.
For science, a game of chess boils down to a linear sequence of moves played.
For example:Quote
1. e4 e5 2. Cf3 Cc6 3. Fb5 Cf6 4. O-O Cxe4 5. d4 Cd6 6. Fxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Cf5 8. Dxd8+ Rxd8 9. Cc3 h6 10. Td1+ Re8 11. h3 Fe7 12. Ce2 Ch4 13. Cxh4 Fxh4 14. Fe3 Ff5 15. Cd4 Fh7 16. g4 Fe7 17. Rg2 h5 18. Cf5 Ff8 19. Rf3 Fg6 20. Td2 hxg4+ 21. hxg4 Th3+ 22. Rg2 Th7 23. Rg3 f6 24. Ff4 Fxf5 25. gxf5 fxe5 26. Te1 Fd6 27. Fxe5 Rd7 28. c4 c5 29. Fxd6 cxd6 30. Te6 Tah8 31. Texd6+ Rc8 32. T2d5 Th3+ 33. Rg2 Th2+ 34. Rf3 T2h3+ 35. Re4 b6 36. Tc6+ Rb8 37. Td7 Th2 38. Re3 Tf8 39. Tcc7 Txf5 40. Tb7+ Rc8 41. Tdc7+ Rd8 42. Txg7 Rc8 1-0.
That's linear.
They have a one-dimensional approach to a game that has 2 dimensions.
That's a big problem.
To be sure of having a two-dimensional approach, and not making the same mistake as them, I want to remove the boundaries of the field.