Sounds reasonable to me. I don't know how much different the openings would be though. I believe most human-made openings were created from accepted chess principles (controlling center, development of pieces,etc), so it may turn out human openings are best anyway. Would be an interesting experiment for sure.
Do you have Rybka? Why don't you give it a shot? Maybe you can name an opening.
I think in some situations the computer can assist in finding new untried lines.
I know for a fact I found a winning continuation in an obscure Sokolsky line with the aid of a PC, I found a move which has NEVER been played OTB in any database I had up to that time, about 8 years ago, and is clearly winning. Newer databases have the imrovement, I wonder if it was discovered by humans, or stumbled upon much like I did.
I also had (and misplaced :() reams of computer generated lines in the Bird invitation defense to the Spanish, some really off the wall stuff, althoughj I can't vouch for how good it was.
Hello, as you may know, chess computers have a pre-programmed opening book, and for strong chess computers, such as rybka, shredder, and deep blue, common openings like the king's pawn can have pre-programmed variations up to 20 moves! This is obviously human work, that has been developed throughout the centuries of chess history! I know this is desinged to save time in the opening, and also give stronger openings, and give a deeper search later on in the game, but...
What if a very strong super-chess-computer such as Rybka, was temporarily programmed to not have an opening book, and start its own game search. Wouldn't this give humans ideas if the computer's own openings turn out very well! That would totally add a new dimension to the world of chess!
Who knows, maybe a3, or h6 may be the computer's choice. Thanks in advanced for any non-rude, and intelligent, knowledgeable, entertaining comments.