Author: Ernest Bonnem
Date: 10:45:20 02/22/04
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On February 22, 2004 at 09:58:01, George Tsavdaris wrote: ............ > >Why don't you add: "or black can win every time"? >The game of Gomoku 15x15 has a perfect symmetry like chess and in fact white has >a tempo more as it plays first like chess again, but in Gomoku 15x15 black has a >big advantage and i think it's a black wins game. Wrong : in Gomoku 15x15 first player wins (see Victor Allis' thesis) Indeed in Go-type games black plays first ! If chess finally shows to be won by second player (I mean black), that will mean that zugzwang is the key of chess... > ...............
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