Author: Claudio Della Corte
Date: 16:34:27 01/20/02
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On January 20, 2002 at 09:50:07, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On January 20, 2002 at 08:25:33, Albert Silver wrote: > >>I stand corrected. Data can only calculate a lousy 155 plies more than today's >>engines. So much for progress. > >Actually, it makes perfect sense. Data's probably seeing all moves as >0 and so Troy could simply trade down into a pawn endgame. Then she >zugzwanged him. (He was using nullmove pruning) > >Or perhaps chess is a forced loss for black. If she played white, It could also be a forced loss for white... nobody so far demonstrated that initial position is not a big zugzwag :) Claudio
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