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Re: Chess; SN 30MAR96; OS of chess discovered; call for help for the most perfect long games that are draws (by grandmasters)

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From: Archimedes Plutonium
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:00
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John DeMastri <demastri@ils.nwu.edu> writes:

> Well stated, Ludwig!
> 
> I would like to offer a counterexample to your Arc Plutonium Mini Max Conjecture

  Okay, I willing to listen
> counterexample worked out here at Northwestern, Ludwig, take the subgame of 
>where there are only two kings and the king's pawns, only those four pieces on >the board and in their original position, now it is white's move first and so 
>white wins and by the King Opposition, ho ho ho, a counterexample

  Not so fast there li'l boy. You sure that is a win for white? And
give us a proof on the Net of the VonNeumann Mini-Max, for I doubt you
know anything of what you are talking about.

> (I normally read all of AP's posts from Dejanews under power search in *great > and *date or under Altavista under Advanced Search for the past several days 
> under the name Archimedes Plutonium
> 
> John

  You are learning , young laddy, but I must say, if you are under a
scholarship at NWU, we are not getting our money's worth
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From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
Subject: Re: Chess; SN 30MAR96; OS of chess discovered; call for help for the most perfect long games that are draws (by grandmasters)
Date: 1997/04/14
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