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Subject: Re: Gomoku ? Re: how many years do we need to practically solve chess?

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 11:38:40 02/22/04

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On February 22, 2004 at 13:45:20, Ernest Bonnem wrote:

>On February 22, 2004 at 09:58:01, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>............
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>>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 !

Yes i know, sorry about that. I just confused who 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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