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Interesting
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An expression often used by senseis in teaching games for a beginner's move that no book ever considered worth mentioning. -- (Sebastian)

victim: I thought that interesting means doesn't work. A would be more interesting than this means, A wouldn't work either, but it's not as obvious.

mdh? I see alot of "uninteresting" which in my mind means it would be more "interesting" to play somewhere else. But if interesting is also bad...

Alex Weldon: I used to play chess against a program called Kasparov's Gambit. It featured little video clips of Kasparov making comments on your moves. My favorite was whenever you played something weird, he'd say, raising his eyebrows, "I hadn't considered this move!"

The way I interpret the use of interesting, at least on this site, is kind of the opposite of what you're saying... that the move has potential, but the person writing hasn't read it all out. "It might be interesting for White to play this way..." Conversely, "uninteresting" means something that clearly doesn't work, or is much too small at the current stage of the game.


(Seriously, though: In translations, interesting is usually the translation of omoshiroi.)



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