Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:34:46 12/21/03
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On December 21, 2003 at 08:33:22, Duncan Roberts wrote: >up to how many moves from the start of the game do we know DEFINITELY, there is >no material win for white. > > >I once saw that a program called bringer or something like that had checked the >first 15 moves or so. > >does anybody have more information? > > >Duncan roberts I did not try to calculate it with a computer but common sense tell me that I can win material with white in 5 plies. 1.e3 2.Qf3 3.Q capture at least a pawn. black may get back more material but it is only in the 6th ply so I do not care about it if I do brute force search with no qsearch and no extensions for 5 plies. I guess that it is possible to prove that with even number of plies it is impossible to win material for 6 plies,8 plies,10 plies,12 plies,14 plies but it is possinble to get material advantage for 7,9,11,13 plies. Uri
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