I was going about my usual humdrum routine and wham I had this idea to create made up games between famous chess players who never met over the board by merging the moves the played getting opening positions and playing them out with an engine in a Monte-Carlo analysis to determine who was more likely to have won.
It's like a combination of ChessMaster's tournaments where you could match legends from the past and the Merge game functionality of Chessbase.
I thought the idea was good enough to write some code for and rather than do it manually with PGNs or with ChessBase I wrote a script in PHP to do it and put the results in a MYSQL database, then I wrote an RSS and set that to post the moves automatically. I called the whole setup "Chess Time Machine". It's really tongue in cheek and a bit of fun.
The twitter account is www.twitter.com/chessTMachine
Some of the complete games are here in a ChessMicrobase
http://chessmicrobase.com/m/ald0byfa
I tried to suggest to ChessBase to use the idea in their software and they laughed me out of their office. lol
What do you think?
It's like a combination of ChessMaster's tournaments where you could match legends from the past and the Merge game functionality of Chessbase.
I thought the idea was good enough to write some code for and rather than do it manually with PGNs or with ChessBase I wrote a script in PHP to do it and put the results in a MYSQL database, then I wrote an RSS and set that to post the moves automatically. I called the whole setup "Chess Time Machine". It's really tongue in cheek and a bit of fun.
The twitter account is www.twitter.com/chessTMachine
Some of the complete games are here in a ChessMicrobase
http://chessmicrobase.com/m/ald0byfa
I tried to suggest to ChessBase to use the idea in their software and they laughed me out of their office. lol
What do you think?