Author: chandler yergin
Date: 16:45:49 01/12/05
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On January 12, 2005 at 19:41:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 12, 2005 at 19:27:05, chandler yergin wrote: > >>On January 12, 2005 at 19:11:12, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On January 12, 2005 at 19:04:31, chandler yergin wrote: >>> >>>>So says Mark Twain.... >>>> >>>>You Programmers are spreading lies, misinformation, & disinformation. >>>> >>>>However I should not attribute to Malice, what can be explained by Ignorance! >>>> >>>>Computers will NEVER SOLVE CHESS! >>>>Stop your Nonsense! >>> >>>If man were meant to fly, he'd have wings. >>>Man will never fly faster than sound. >>>Man will never go to the moon. >>> >>>Things that seem impossible quickly become possible. >>> >>>In this particular case, it is even obvious mathematically how it will come >>>about. >> >>If you understood Mathmatics, you wouldn't say that! >> >>It IS Obvious, that it's an Impossibility! >> >>The Question of "whether or not God exists" is a Philosophical & Meataphysical >>Question. >>Would you agree? >> >>Some say.. "It can't be Proven". >>With a Philosophical Question, there are NO 'right or wrong' answers... >> >>With Mathmatics, there ARE 'right & wrong' answers. > >Mathematics will not tell you if it is practically possible to solve chess. > >> >>Your perception is in error! >> >>THINK! >> >>"In a tree, from the Starting Position, there are 20 possible moves for white. >>There are 20 * 20 = 400 possible moves for black, depending on what white does. > >Yes but you do not need to analyze everyone of them and no program does it. > >>Then there are 400 * 20 = 8,000 for white. > >The number of possible games of 3 plies is more than 8000. >The number of possible positions that you get after 3 plies is smaller because >1.e4 e6 2.d4 is identical to 1.d4 e6 2.e4 > > > Then there are 8,000 * 20 = 160,000 >>for black, and so on. If you were to fully develop the entire tree for all >>possible chess moves, the total number of board positions is about >>1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, >>000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, >>000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, >>000,000,000,000, or 10^120, give or take a few. > >No > >The number of possible games is higher than 10^120 Give or take a few... > >The number of total positions is clearly smaller. I just proved it isn't! >Maybe 10^40 and it is easy to prove it. PROVE IT! Stop your absurd assertions! > >It does not mean that it is possible to solve chess in our life time but it also >does not mean that it is impossible. Of course it does...! I see you don't understand Mathmatics either! > >Uri
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