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Subject: Re: material win for white

Author: Chris Hull

Date: 09:57:34 12/21/03

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On December 21, 2003 at 08:50:19, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>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
>
>Uhh, if white wins, then there is some material win.  Since no one knows if
>white wins, this seems like an impossible question to answer.
>
>anthony

The only conclusion you can draw from this is that white does not have a forced
win in the first 15 moves. Any other inference is fraught with risk.

Chris



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