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Subject: Re: Makes perfect sense

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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