Thank you very much (again!) for you feedback!
Ovyron wrote:
I'm serious, this Sandbox Chess could have some potential, Rodolfo and me would play a game but instead of trying to beat each other we'd join forces to attempt to produce the strongest continuation from both sides, sounds interesting...
Yeah, call me naive, but thats how I have always handled correspondence chess since Ive been doing it with postcards as a kid.
For me its more about finding "the truth" or something really interesting and have a good game than to win, because to win, the opponent has to make a mistake...
Not long ago I read an interesting article from Arno Nickel (I think he is still in the top 20 ICCF) where he wrote that correspondence players are always seeking the "perfect game" (unfortunate its in german) and I think that hits the nail ...
Sure, its always nice to win, but if I would like to have more of the "fighting" (and winning) aspect of chess, I would play OTB, which is pure fighting and destroying your opponent, as Bobby F. and Garry K. once said.
And of course this mind setting is (or was?) also in freeAquarium where one of the ideas is to analyze with lots of people (and engines) in a distributed way to find interesting positions and moves, create different opening books and let them play against each other etc...
But maybe, this idea is simply an illusion of an old, naive and stupid man ^^
Ovyron wrote:
I like the solution of "Private Trees", that you analyze and build on your own without anyone peeking. Then you can add an option to make them public, so people that don't mind sharing after the games are over contribute to the main tree. Possibly with "make public after move x", so that people that still want to keep their opening analysis private can still share the rest of the game.
Yes, I also tend to this solution, because for me a standalone version wouldn't make sense, I simply don't need such a thing, because I need something distributed where I can start several engines on several different machines.
Also, with a standalone version lots of technical trouble would arise which are not fun to solve (for me), but hard work. I do this kind of stuff for money, I don't want that for having fun ^^
The "Private Trees":
Yes, very much possible, most work for this would be in the GUI, I think, the backend stuff is relative easy. Maybe some details like "what to do if the user publishes stuff that is already there etc" needed to be make, but much more importantly my problem is this:
Why should I implement something to help different users to hide their analysis where there are no users and no analysis? We don't need this with only a hand full users.
Yeah, maybe its "chicken and egg" problem, but I don't think so, because I don't think people are seeing this problem without trying this software...
Without going to much in detail (in public), Im currently a bit frustrated, even thinking about continuing this project just for me, as it once was...
But, well maybe I simply need a break and/or have to many expectations ^^