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Subject: Re: chess solved

Author: Shep

Date: 11:06:47 12/14/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 08:01:18, Jason Williamson wrote:

>>My personal belief is that chess is a win for white.
>
>Don't you see, its a win for black!  White is in Zugzwang on move one!  ;)

Exactly that's why I believe chess is a draw.
Zugzwang positions are really rare compared to "ordinary" ones, so I think it is
unlikely that the initial position is Zugzwang for White or the position after
any first move is a Zugzwang for Black.
Of course that's no closer to a proof than tossing a coin, but it fuels my
belief. :)

And to paraphrase Fermat, I did solve chess, but the proof does not fit on the
margin of this discussion board. ;-)))

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Shep



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