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Subject: Re: Is there any forced pos. which 36 hrs+1.4GHz. Athlon will not solve?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:32:25 10/12/01

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On October 12, 2001 at 11:24:03, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>Hi
>
>On October 12, 2001 at 10:23:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>First try the Nolot test positions for 36 hours.  Then report back with
>>your "finding".  :)
>
>And where exactly is the proof that the so-called solutions of these tests
>really are the best? Or is it more like opening theory where the so-called
>book moves just happen to be considered best/good by a large number of
>people, whereas it's possible that white to move is lost from the beginning
>(due to ZugZwang ;) and the best defense is a3? (maybe followed by h6! hee)
>
>Sargon


Some of them are provably correct (almost all in fact).  But they take
far longer than 36 hours.

If you really think 36 hours will solve _any_ problem, then you must think
that computers are unbeatable at correspondence chess?  They are _far_ from
it in fact...



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