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Subject: Re: "chess" cannot be solved

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 00:16:27 01/16/05

To solve a game is to prove the result with best play for both sides.  It's a
term with precise meaning.

Tic tac toe is solved (it's a draw).  Connect Four is solved (it's a win for the
first player).  Chess and Checkers are not solved.  It is theoretically possible
to solve chess, you'd just have to do a very vey deep alpha-beta search.  It is
not possible to consider doing this now, and probably won't be for the
foreseeable future.

So what we are left to discuss is strength in practical play, which has nothing
to do with solving chess.

bruce

Re: "chess" cannot be solved Uri Blass 02:29:36 01/16/05
- Re: "chess" cannot be solved Ricardo Gibert 04:34:01 01/16/05
  - Re: "chess" cannot be solved Uri Blass 05:09:14 01/16/05
    - Re: "chess" cannot be solved Ricardo Gibert 05:25:31 01/16/05
      - Re: "chess" cannot be solved Mike Hood 05:54:31 01/16/05
        
        Re: "chess" cannot be solved Ricardo Gibert 06:19:03 01/16/05
        
        Re: "chess" cannot be solved José Carlos 13:30:55 01/16/05
        
        Re: "chess" cannot be solved Ricardo Gibert 15:48:10 01/16/05
        
        Re: "chess" cannot be solved José Carlos 16:54:55 01/16/05
        
        Correction José Carlos 07:33:16 01/17/05
        
        Re: "chess" cannot be solved chandler yergin 16:30:47 01/16/05
- Re: "chess" cannot be solved Alan McCracken 02:53:19 01/16/05
  - Re: "chess" cannot be solved Alan McCracken 02:56:37 01/16/05
Re: "chess" cannot be solved Madhavan 01:21:27 01/16/05
- Re: "chess" cannot be solved...You Don't Know What You're Talking About! Alan McCracken 01:46:31 01/16/05
  - Re: "chess" cannot be solved...You Don't Know What You're Talking About! Mike Hood 02:16:40 01/16/05
    - Wrong Mike! Alan McCracken 02:43:30 01/16/05
      - Re: Wrong Mike! Mike Hood 05:47:50 01/16/05
        
        Re: Wrong Mike! Alan McCracken 08:11:57 01/16/05
      - Re: Wrong Mike! Uri Blass 04:54:24 01/16/05
        
        Re: Wrong Mike! Alan McCracken 08:15:50 01/16/05

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