Re: The Future of Chess and Getting It "Unstuck" (potential heresy

On Apr 2, 6:07 pm, Quadibloc <jsav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> I'm surprised you didn't mention Go here,
> since it has a bigger game tree. Of course,
> computers are improving there too, but at
> least it has a little time left.

At what level do they play today?

Weiqi (Go) can always switch to 21x21 board.

> Then there's the game of Gess, which seems
> to have been deliberately devised to be a
> game for supergeniuses and extraordinarily
> difficult for computers.
>
> John Savard

Sounds like Arimaa. Thank you for mentioning
Gess, I'll google on "Gess".

Over years I have read about several
interesting chess variants. One of them
allows to promote white (resp. black) pawns
also on the 7th (resp. 2nd) row but not to
a queen. Otherwise it is just chess :-)
A very nice idea!

Regards,

    Wlod