New idea for a fair Human-Machine battle without handycap

[Laszlo Gaspar]

The point is to give the last chance for humans. If there is chance in very long time controls like correspondence games there might be some in shorter ones even in normal tournament games. Just the right tool should be provided. A 7 hour game might be long enough to use such tool with success. Well, I don't know if it could help or not. Someone should ask a GM.

[bob]

The point is to give the last chance for humans. If there is chance in very long time controls like correspondence games there might be some in shorter ones even in normal tournament games. Just the right tool should be provided. A 7 hour game might be long enough to use such tool with success. Well, I don't know if it could help or not. Someone should ask a GM.

I don't think you are going to find GM-level players that want an "edge". They have big egos and want to play the machine heads-up and beat it. They don't want to start with an advantage and then win and have to wonder if they could have won without the advantage they were given at the start. That's the way I want to play.

[Laszlo Gaspar]

There is no advantage in my idea just a more fair condition. It is advantagous only compared to recent playing systems where GMs play handicapped (it is not allowed for them to setup any positions on the board, while I think it should be).