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Subject: Re: petition request for Andrew Williams

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:03:08 01/07/05

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On January 07, 2005 at 10:33:39, Duncan Roberts wrote:

>On January 07, 2005 at 10:02:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On January 07, 2005 at 08:12:52, Duncan Roberts wrote:
>>
>>If there would be material win for white within say 60 plies of search from
>>openings position then:
>>  a) it would have been found already if winning for white by GM's and
>>especially by corr players.
>
>as only a small percentage of the positions possible withion 60 plies have been
>analysed by gms' it is by no means impossible that they have missed something

I believe that it is a waste of time to do it as Vincent correctly predicted.
You will find no win of material from the opening position.

I bet that even after 1.e4 a6 2.d4 h6 you will find no win of material for white
in 30 plies if and if it is proved to be the case than searching 34 plies for
the opening position is clearly a waste of time because clearly 1...a6 2...h6
are not the best move.

I am even not sure if you will find a win of material after 1.e4 null 2.d4 null
3.Nf3 Null 4.Nc3 Null 5.Bc4 Null 6.Bf4 null

Note that I believe that the last position is a win for white unlike the opening
position that is a draw.

I am not sure about the claim that the opening position is a draw but I am quite
sure that even in case that it is not a draw computers are not at the level that
they can find forced win of material.

I suggest that you first try to find win from this position after an hour of
search.

[D]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/2BPPB2/2N2N2/PPP2PPP/R2QK2R w KQkq - 0 1

If you find nothing in one hour then it will be a convincing evidence that
finding something for the opening position is hopeless.

Uri



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