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Is chess fundamentally harder to "effectively" solve than Go?
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[QUOTE="PAllen, post: 6852652, member: 275028"] I agree that it is likely (or at least plausible) that a few of the chess 960 starting positions are forced wins for one side. There was a chess variant I found far more interesting than chess 960 (with prescribed starting positions and complex castling rules), that never caught on. There was one famous match played between GM Arthur Bisguier and GM Pal Benko in this variant, that was surprisingly convincingly won by the former (Benko had [I]much[/I] better overall results in conventional chess). The idea was to start with 16 pawns in their standard starting position. The first 8 moves (16 half moves) of the game were each player putting the pieces on the back rank wherever they wanted to, one at a time, responding to where the opponent put them, so far. There were no castling rules at all, since you were supposed to figure king safety into your placement strategy. [/QUOTE]
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