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Subject: Re: Tablebase Draws and the audience of chess

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 15:14:08 01/23/03

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On January 23, 2003 at 11:57:25, margolies,marc wrote:

>As we seem to know, using table base look-ups and forcing lines, a chess program
>may announce mate in 42 moves some time in the middlegame.
>So if we apply (or misapply) 'rule 14' will these games have endings at all or
>shall we watch 2/3 of a chess game--- acknowledging that silicon already knows
>more than carbon in the last dance?

I assume you are just kidding but I remember a match in which Kasparov was
playing and I was following with Fritz/tablebases.  When I saw Fritz announce
mate in 32 against Kasparov I was amazed to see Kasparov resign at that very
moment!  Wish I could remember the game now.
Jim



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