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Aberg variation of Capablanca's Chess. Different setup and castling rules. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

💡📝Hans Aberg wrote on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 08:21 PM UTC:

H.G.Muller:
| Chess is a chaotic system, and a innocuous difference between two
| apparently completely similar positions [...] can make the difference
| between win and loss.

This is only true if positions are viewed out of context.

Humans overcome this by assigning a plan to the game. Not all position may be analyzable by such a method. The human analyzing method does not apply to all positions: only some. For effective human playing, one needs to link into the positions to which the theory applies, and avoid the others. If one does not succeed in that, a loss is likely.

The subset of positions where such a theory applies may not be chaotic, then.