Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 15:26:28 09/08/00
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It's all very simple. Say -you have some pawns and some beans. Now you want to count them. What will you count? Beans, or pawns? Beans, of course! Because we KNOW how much pawns there are! There are EIGHT pawns! It's in the chess rules! Ilyumzinov said it's okay, so we stay with eight pawns. Now back to the beans. Do you know how many beans here are? No! So you have to count them! The more the better. Now to the zero sum: suppose there are no beans to count? What DO we have then? ZERO beans. You then count zero beans! A sum of zero beans! A zero count sum! So remember: never count pawns - only count beans. It's very simple, basically. Jeroen ;-}
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