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Subject: Re: "A fantastic mate in seven"

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 20:32:44 03/10/00

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On March 10, 2000 at 23:02:34, Marc Plum wrote:

>On March 10, 2000 at 17:59:11, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>(snip)
>>This position is trivial -- all modern chess programs solve it in a split
>>second.  Underpromotion is not a problem any more :-)
>>
>>***  Djordje
>
>OK, such positions are the arithmetic of chess.  Maybe the wonder is gone from
>seeing programs solve them in seconds.
>
>That doesn't mean, though, that we have to give up our human ideas of what is a
>pretty combination, or does it?
>
>Marc

Only if that's what you want.  But think of Chess programs as tools, don't think
of them as the game of Chess itself.

Pete



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