Author: Pekka Karjalainen
Date: 02:09:03 05/12/01
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On May 11, 2001 at 13:20:21, Dann Corbit wrote: [I asked a silly question:] >>But is this not something you could use the C.A.P. data to answer, or at least >>theorize a little? > >To take an eyedropper of seawater and make hypothesis about the ocean is a bit >of a stretch. I could do it, of course, but it would be wild extrapolation. >Besides which, I only analyze moves that people or machines have once played or >composed[1]. What about all the moves that people have never tried? > >[1] Not completely true, I have done some studies using brute force move >generation for the first few plies. A surprising number of checkmates do live >in there. Sometimes wild extrapolation can be interesting too, as long as we don't take it too seriously. But I do certainly see your point about oceans of chess positions. I wonder about that footnote you added. How many plies have you done that way & how many checkmates you have found? It'd be quite interesting to know, but hardly vital information :) Pekka K.
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