国际象棋标准开局是否已到绝境？

CHESS can be improved by rearranging the positions of the starting pieces to produce a more difficult or fairer game, a physicist has found. A standard game of chess always starts with the pieces at the back of the board arranged with an element of symmetry. Starting from the outside, for both white and black, are pairs of rooks, knights and bishops, with a king and queen in the middle. But because this arrangement is fixed, top chess players can memorise the best moves to open a game of chess, which can lead to predictable matches. In the 1990s, the late chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer proposed a variant of the game, called Chess960, that reduced this reliance on memory. …