OT: Chess

[JonBrave]

Originally Posted by krpeters

I used to play chess when I was younger, then got fed up with the lack of random starts. Memorizing series of opening moves is critical to playing the game, and a computer can do that better than people can.

Chess AIs would get brutalized by humans in a random starting position game.

Yes, "memorizing" openings is not much of an issue for computers.

I believe there always have been "variants", wherein the positions of the pieces in the first rank are randomized. I doubt an computer chess would "adapt" to that, but on the grand scales of things, unless you're really good, I would guess they wouldn't get "brutalized", they'd do well enough after the first few moves.