Jeff,
I respectfully disagree. Chess players are taught to evaluate and analyze a few “candidate” moves before reaching a final decision and will rarely take the time to evaluate crazy off-the-wall moves once the initial moves are proposed. With crowdchess, players will be able to discover and discuss a wide variety of interesting moves he/she may not have ever considered. The greatest game ever played
provides a good example of how far this can go. This was a game done in 1999 that pitted Kasparov against 50,000 players from around the world. Almost 10 years later, I’m sure the results could be even better.
I agree with you in the fact that the site is not currently set up optimally for this procedure. I believe an open forum where users can create threads about moves they are considering would work quite well. After an initial discussion, the moves could be voted on, discussed again and another vote until the crowd’s best move is proposed. The site currently has a lack of this discussion as users can only see the current most popular moves. If this discussion starts occurring, I think the results may astound you.
In addition to being a chess geek, I also play a game called Civilization 4, and it greatly leverages the wisdom of crowds through online forums. Similar to Chess, Civilization is turn based, and is extremely strategic in nature. Many arguments have broken out on the forum about which game is more strategic. Another thread on CivFanatics has one player take feedback from the community after every set of turns to optimize his strategy. Even the simplest things such as the opening move generate pages of discussion. Should crowdchess evolve into something similar to this, I could foresee the crowd defeating a grandmaster one day. If crowdchess continues to gain recognition from sites like the Wall Street Journal it could really explode in popularity. All this being said, the crowd is currently getting destroyed by grandmaster Gawain Jones.
Finally, I would love to play you any time, though I may need around 50,000 friends.

Lets rock.

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