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

Author: Scott Gasch

Date: 18:42:33 04/03/02

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>Those are my thoughts. There were relatively few replies posted to my question,
>but I hope it has made a lot of you think.
>
>But to answer my own question: I'm a person who is fascinated by computers, by
>chess, and by computer chess in particular. I couldn't stand someone destroying
>my hobby overnight. Normally I'm not a violent person, but in this case I would
>definitely shoot the programmer.

I know you don't want to let a little thing like reality affect this
hypothetical discussion but I feel obliged to point out that there are more
chess positions than atoms in the universe... a 32-man databse will never exist.
 If it did I guess I'd have to take up go programming ;)

Scott



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