If you are not familiar with the term, Advanced Chess is Chess where using a computer is legal. So you could sit there with Rybka and have it tell you what move to make. Proponents of Advanced Chess say that a good player with a computer can be a computer alone. Some disagree.

I don't know who is right, but I had an idea for a limited version of Advanced Chess. You can use a computer program, but the computer program is limited to two functions: displaying the legal moves, and evaluating positions. It would not be able to search the tree of possible moves and calculate the best one. You would have to do that yourself.

So it would be a lot like using game explorer in online chess here. However, once you were out of the database of games into new territory, it would show you a list of possible moves, with an evaluation of how good the computer thinks the position resulting from each one is. I have this vision of people using different evaluation functions, and maybe having toolkits they can use to design their own evaluation functions.

I'm not sure what I think of this myself. But it was an idea I had, and I thought I'd throw it out there and see what other people thought.

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So it is playing with the computer evaluating the position only one ply deep then and it is up to the human to see his own continuation. I wouldn't mind playing this sort of game, but of course I could also say I don't see much reason to. A pure battle of two human minds is the way chess should be.