Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 07:13:51 05/20/05
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I have problems with seeing that associativity and inverse exist in the simple scheme you proposed. Associativity breaks because two move orders do sometimes result in different end positions (f.ex: different values for the 50 move rule and the exittence of en passant). And sometimes different move orders are illegal. And moves that do not have an inverse are plentiful. AFAIK seeing chess positions as a group can only work if we change the rules of chess to 'chess. And then the problem would have to be to prove that the results of 'chess have bearing in chess. It would probably be simple in special cases. MvH Dan Andersson
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