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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Chess question
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.021924.26728@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 91 02:19:24 GMT
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>In article <63149@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> pmm@acsu.buffalo.edu (patrick m
>mullhaupt) writes:
>>	Recently a friend of mine claimed that it had been *proven*
>>through game theory that chess was a win for white.  I find this very
>>hard to believe and would appreciate any references or comments on the
>>topic.

	I think it would be possible to prove given a massive
computer using a recursive search, but I don't think such a computer
exists.
	(BTW: Did the name for Deep Thought come from the Douglas
Adams book?)

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