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From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Message-ID: <16412@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 26 Feb 90 04:39:09 GMT
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ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:

>L.ZETTEL                     at 15:53 EST
> 
	Len writes, in part ...

>      Dr. Ackoff presents an additional concept: A *mess* is a system of
>  problems.  The important point to note is that a mess can not be
>  straightened out just by solving the problems of which it is composed.
>  You have to consider the way each problem acts on the others.  

	That's the principle of Intrinsic Difficulty restated as
a sociological theorem, Len, instead of in its normal context of
Game Theory.

	Intriguing proposition, Intrinsic Difficulty is why you
have to solve chess endings from the back rather than from the front.

	Now, if a mathematical solution could be found for Chess,
defeating the vague presuppositions of Intrinsic Difficulty, what
an impact that would have on *all* kinds of gamesmanship, from
sales to international politics!

	It would be the moral equivalent of what Isaac Asimov's 
fictitious psychohistorian, Hari Seldon, discovered ...

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