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There are plenty of people who love chess but hate opening theory. They look to variants such as chess960 to get their logician fix on. They also tend to love G
by chongli 4y ago
There are plenty of people who love chess but hate opening theory. They look to variants such as chess960 to get their logician fix on. They also tend to love Go (the board game) and perhaps even Stratego (which has such a game tree that dwarfs the rest).
- avgcorrection 4y agoChess was such a good example to use in this lame dichotomy that we are now pivoting to Bobby Fischer chess and completely different games.
- chongli 4y agoIt's not a lame dichotomy. There are loads of people who detest rote memorization and prefer to solve only the problem directly in front of them. Bobby Fischer himself invented his variant because he hated that aspect of the game. I, personally, empathize with this position as a university student who gets higher grades in pure math courses than in the "easier" applied versions due to the memorization aspect.
- avgcorrection 4y agoDoesn’t matter because it doesn’t apply to language design.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoCompletely different in that everything is exactly the same except for minor variation to the starting position...
- avgcorrection 4y agoFischer Chess is solidly outside the mainstream. Just let it go.