Re: Mortimer trap test bug in Stockfish 10
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 5:07 am
I think that traps that really give something away are a bad idea.
The reason is that you are looking down on your opponent.
There are two traps with the "giving material away to fool someone" trap.
The first one is that they might be smarter than you think and not get fooled. Then you gave away something for nothing. Then they clobber you due to your error and you feel foolish for underestimating them.
The second one is that you might feel bad about using the trap.
When my little sister Julie was about 13, she wanted to play me in a game of chess. So I used a variant of the fool's mate to beat her.
Not the two move version, but the one that uses 4 moves but the same idea. Then I felt bad that I beat her that way.
So I showed her why it was a trap and how the trap works, and also how to beat the trap.
Anyway, I think we should play like chess engines do. That is to say, always assume that your opponent is going to play the best possible move.
That having been said, I like to play the Orangutan, and everyone knows that 1.b4 is not the strongest first move. But I like it anyway.
So I guess sometimes we do not always follow our own advice, or, I should say, I don't always follow my own advice.
The reason is that you are looking down on your opponent.
There are two traps with the "giving material away to fool someone" trap.
The first one is that they might be smarter than you think and not get fooled. Then you gave away something for nothing. Then they clobber you due to your error and you feel foolish for underestimating them.
The second one is that you might feel bad about using the trap.
When my little sister Julie was about 13, she wanted to play me in a game of chess. So I used a variant of the fool's mate to beat her.
Not the two move version, but the one that uses 4 moves but the same idea. Then I felt bad that I beat her that way.
So I showed her why it was a trap and how the trap works, and also how to beat the trap.
Anyway, I think we should play like chess engines do. That is to say, always assume that your opponent is going to play the best possible move.
That having been said, I like to play the Orangutan, and everyone knows that 1.b4 is not the strongest first move. But I like it anyway.
So I guess sometimes we do not always follow our own advice, or, I should say, I don't always follow my own advice.