In tournament checkers the first 3 moves are determined by drawing a card at random with a given opening. Why not with chess? Let’s say out of x number of openings and variations 5 moves or so deep play would then begin. Would this level the playing field?
See: officialrules4chess.com
Checkers was solved about five years ago. It’s a draw from the original starting position.
sciencemag.org/content/317/5 … 8.abstract
Long before that though, the games were getting boring because the top players, while lacking perfect understanding, knew enough to play draw after draw. So some stimulus had to be applied to get some unpredictability in the results.
Chess is vastly more complex and won’t be solved, at least not for many years. GM understanding of the game is extremely incomplete, despite their vast erudition.
I don’t see a need to “level the playing field”, but my old chess club used to run “thematic tournaments” where all the games would start with a specific opening. You could run one and see how many people are willing to spend a Saturday playing the Orangutan. But usually we chose openings that the people might actually want to learn.
Don’t the strongest chess players usually win Fischer Random too?
What an oddly designed and worded website . . .
Yes. It seems to have been written by someone who is not too familiar with either the English language or chess.
Alex Relyea