Carlsen-Caruana... 12 draws in a row.
Ever since Steinitz, Chess has not been as successful as a spectator sport as it was in the glory days of Labourdonnais and McDonnell or Anderssen and Kieseritzky.
I have toyed with a number of suggestions to change that.
But Vladimir Kramnik came up with a very simple idea - and had it tested
out by Google's AlphaZero computer system: remove the privilege of Castling from the game of Chess.
And it appeared that the desired result was obtained - exciting Chess play turned out to be the optimal strategy in that case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqmLYlFdBo

John Savard

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On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 7:57:58 PM UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:

Carlsen-Caruana... 12 draws in a row.
Ever since Steinitz, Chess has not been as successful as a spectator sport as it was in the glory days of Labourdonnais and McDonnell or Anderssen and Kieseritzky.
I have toyed with a number of suggestions to change that.
But Vladimir Kramnik came up with a very simple idea - and had it tested
out by Google's AlphaZero computer system: remove the privilege of Castling from the game of Chess.
And it appeared that the desired result was obtained - exciting Chess play turned out to be the optimal strategy in that case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqmLYlFdBo

He is just reviving an idea of Dr Lasker.

William Hyde

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:55:28 -0800 (PST), William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

And it appeared that the desired result was obtained - exciting Chess play >> turned out to be the optimal strategy in that case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqmLYlFdBo

He is just reviving an idea of Dr Lasker.

So we're all going to fianchetto our kings on g2 to get the rooks out?

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On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 12:55:29 PM UTC-7, William Hyde wrote:

He is just reviving an idea of Dr Lasker.

Really?

All I could find in a Google search was that Emanuel Lasker, in
"Lasker's Manual of Chess", when describing the King's Fianchetto and
King's Fianchetto openings (1. e4 g6 and 1. e4 b6 respectively) wrote:

"Ancient Openings, presumably invented at a time before our rule of
Castling was introduced, and when another form of Castling, a jump of
the King over two squares was lawful. These were sane rules, and it
would have been better if they had not been changed."

This isn't quite the same thing as simply abolishing Castling completely.

John Savard

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