Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:31:16 05/30/00
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On May 30, 2000 at 13:49:25, Dann Corbit wrote:
>Go right ahead.
>
>Every chess opening might be refuted one day. Every refutation might have
>another refutation answer discovered. Maybe the optimal opening is 1. f4 (for
>all we really know).
>
>There is no such thing as a proof of correctness unless it leads to irrefutable
>checkmate. You won't be able to accomplish this for the Halloween attack.
>Therefore, it is only one of the quintillions of possibly viable openings.
As far as I'm concerned, an opening is correct if it doesn't lead to a forced
disadvantage (a forced loss may be a little deep to prove for the moment). I
looked at it and Noomen's (and Euwe's) suggested line, and it looks quite
decisive: White is dead lost.
Albert Silver
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