[FOM] Checkers is a draw
Randall R Schulz
rschulz at sonic.net
Thu Jul 26 22:18:30 EDT 2007
On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:30, joeshipman at aol.com wrote:
> I have a master's rating, and I own several Grandmaster-level chess
> engines. I rarely beat them when playing "straight", but I find it
> quite easy to beat any of them when I am allowed to use the "move
> takeback" option repeatedly.
Well, that's not chess as its rules define it, is it? It's chess with
time-travel into one's own past (while carrying back information from
the future, of course). It really tells us nothing about you or
these "engines," does it?
> ...
Randall Schulz
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