If a computer does come up with a variation then I think the credit should go to the person who invented and put the most work into the system.
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Entire middle and end game will be... gamed out by programs. There will be well practiced variations that require 10 digits to differentiate!
maybe,just maybe
Dec 17, 2008
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Well I don't think there are any good 'openings' left to be discovered. If we redefine openings as simply book moves, then yeah maybe but any 'opening' named after the program discovering it will be well into the middlegame.
The thing with saying that there aren't any 'good' openings not found is that theory changes over time... what Victorian Masters would have seen as the best opening will be very different to the ones in common practice today. For example, it is now fairly rare for masters to play certain variations of the King's Gambit which would have been used a lot in the past.
So as theory changes, new openings will be discovered, or old ones will return, and current openings like the Guioco Piano will be thrown out as trash. Well, maybe not that, but some openings will certainly disappear from Master's repertoires.
I imagine that one day there will be variations named after computer programs.
The Sicilian Rybka 13.82 Beta Variation.