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Daniel Shawul · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 2185 Location: Ethiopia

At the risk of sounding so silly and being ridiculed, I ask this question Smile

Apparently had it not been for zugzwangs, chess could almost be weakly proven as either a win or draw for white like tic-tac-toe is. The fact that something subtle like presence of zugzwangs is the whole reason why it can't be solved somewhat shocked me. I always imagined black has some formidable chances.

The game I am working on now Hex can never be win for black due to the strategy stealing argument. Infact for my board size 8x8 is actually proven to be so (shocker Cool

). Maybe I misread something or there could be other factors other than zugzwang that will not make it work for chess...
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