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Subject: Re: Chess is as a Fire

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:39:23 10/01/00

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On October 01, 2000 at 13:59:32, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>This is possible for the first six to eight moves per side in the opening but
>then you would have to know capture sequences etc and move ordering and
>repetitions and mate threats and....
>
>When you reach a Kpk or kPK endgame you would lack data to reconstruct the game.
>It is like an object that is partially destroyed by fire.  If it is too far-gone
>we don't even know what it was.  If it is only slightly damaged then we might be
>able to even get clues as to why it burned in the first place.
>
>In any case, the first position is usually the same unless we are playing
>Fischer Random Chess and the ultimate final position is two opposite kings on
>the board.
>
>We can use mathematical regression to solve problems but in the real world there
>are few exact solutions...
>
>
>Tim Frohlick

The poster did not look for an exact solution but for a possible solution.

If you give me a position I can construct a possible game that lead to the
position(I do not say that the solution is unique and the game does not have to
be a good game)

I think that nobody is interested in doing a special program to do the same.

Uri



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