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Subject: Re: Can latest supercomputers almost solve chess yet?

Author: Angrim

Date: 15:26:22 11/16/03

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On November 16, 2003 at 13:20:37, Stephen A. Boak wrote:

>If you do not examine *all* the move possibilities, how can you ever say you
>*solved* chess by a pruning method that ignores certain moves & followups.

Because you may be able to prove that the moves that you ignored were
irrelevant to the proof.  The obvious example is that if you know one of
the moves from a position wins, there is no need to examine any of the
other moves from that position.

Angrim



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