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Subject: Re: 32-piece tablebases (Philosophical Question)

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 05:52:42 04/03/02

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On April 03, 2002 at 08:14:02, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On April 03, 2002 at 07:07:03, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>Perhaps there is a shortcut, maybe we don't need to search the entire tree, all
>>we need is to invert a 64x64 matrix :)
>>I can't get it out of my head that it might be possible to solve the problem
>>mathematicly if we find the right model.
>
>Well, mathematically, chess is solved. The compression algorithm is also very
>efficient - it's the rules of the game of chess. It's just that usually the
>decompression takes quite some time.
>
>:)
>
>
>Sargon

Ah, but is like saying we understand everything about turbulence just because we
know some stochastics of how the molecules interact :)

I guess here the positional play is macro canonial behavior and tactics is micro
canonial :)

Perhaps it is provably unsolvable, a three body problem of game theory!
Even so, pertubation theory should tell us something, LOL.

-S.



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