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Subject: Chess solved?! :-)

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 14:23:38 11/28/00

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On November 28, 2000 at 17:16:25, Ed Schröder wrote:

<Large SNIP>

>Does it play 1.e4 or 1.d4 for the wrong reason?
>
>
>Ed

If you told us you had chess solved, like some say to have done with test
positions, it would matter a lot if it changed for the right reason!

Torstein




>>>>
>>>>That was my point.  Yes it played the right move.  No it didn't understand
>>>>why.  It played it fully expecting to lose.  It could have played any of
>>>>_several_ moves and _still_ expected to lose.  It just _happened_ to pick the
>>>>right one.  In this case, for a reason (weak opponent pawn) that had _nothing_
>>>>to do with how the game actually progressed and was won by that move.
>>>>
>>>>I chalked that one up to heads or tails and heads came up _that_ time.  Next
>>>>time it could well be tails and it goes down in brilliant flames...



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