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Subject: Re: another Deep Blue question---Robert

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 10:32:48 04/11/02

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On April 11, 2002 at 13:03:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 11, 2002 at 12:43:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Can the find it by discovering that Kf1 is a draw?
>>
>>Not a chance...
>>
>>So it is based on serendipity...  which is, of course, true for a lot of
>>moves played by computers...
>
>I do not understand what is serendipity and I have not a dictionary
>now but it is based on knowledge that deeper blue had not.


Serendipity is lucky coincidence.

One dictionary site defines it:

"the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought
for"


PS: If you have the Web, you have many dictionaries!

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary is one



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