brownbear

Beautiful, thank you! Great analysis of SC2 btw!

Recently chatted with a friend who is almost-expert in Chess (wish we had recorded it.. !) about the future of strategy games

Chess is being solved "from both ends": The endgame is solved at 4 pieces remaining.. then 5.. soon to be 6 or 7 etc

And some opening moves are solved until say, 9 pieces on the board. As that expands, and they overlap, an *entire line* from an opening move

Will be solved... if it's a win for black, then white has to play a different move. If it's a win for white, then the game is solved for wh

Thought you would find interesting due to your interest in strategy :)

We have hope that Bughouse is the future: 2v2 speedchess where you give captured pieces to your teamate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess …

https://gafferongames.com/post/deterministic_lockstep/ … is good too