Have there been any Opening Projects?

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premio53

With computers now rated around 3200 and fully capable of weeding out losing lines in various openings is there a website where someone been analyzing different lines of major openings in order to refute bad ones?

premio53

I know IM Vasik Rajlich has claimed to have completely solved the King's Gambit with a parallel cluster of IBM POWER 7 Servers provided by David Slate, senior manager of IBM's Semantic Analysis and Integration department – 2,880 cores at 4.25 GHz, 16 terabytes of RAM, very similar to the hardware used by IBM's Watson in winning the TV show "Jeopardy". The IBM servers ran a port of the latest version of Rybka.

He says that there is only one move that draws for White, and that is 3.Be2. Every other move loses by force.

http://en.chessbase.com/post/rajlich-busting-the-king-s-gambit-this-time-for-sure

I was just wondering if there are other well known openings that have been solved by modern chess programs.

jposthuma
premio53 wrote:

I know IM Vasik Rajlich has claimed to have completely solved the King's Gambit with a parallel cluster of IBM POWER 7 Servers provided by David Slate, senior manager of IBM's Semantic Analysis and Integration department – 2,880 cores at 4.25 GHz, 16 terabytes of RAM, very similar to the hardware used by IBM's Watson in winning the TV show "Jeopardy". The IBM servers ran a port of the latest version of Rybka.

He says that there is only one move that draws for White, and that is 3.Be2. Every other move loses by force.

http://en.chessbase.com/post/rajlich-busting-the-king-s-gambit-this-time-for-sure

I was just wondering if there are other well known openings that have been solved by modern chess programs.

Uh premio sorry to break it to you, but that was an april fools joke. They haven't solved the King's Gambit. And if they can't solve the king's gambit, I'm not sure what they could solve...

premio53

My bad.  So you are saying it isn't possible?