Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 06:50:07 01/20/02
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On January 20, 2002 at 08:25:33, Albert Silver wrote: >I stand corrected. Data can only calculate a lousy 155 plies more than today's >engines. So much for progress. Actually, it makes perfect sense. Data's probably seeing all moves as 0 and so Troy could simply trade down into a pawn endgame. Then she zugzwanged him. (He was using nullmove pruning) Or perhaps chess is a forced loss for black. If she played white, he would make bogus moves as everything loses anyway. So she beat him. -- GCP
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