17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
I would counter that this was a single game irrispective of how many times it could be moved since the outcome is the same.
This would really simplify the strategy of chess... Smirnov Jagermeister 1. Wn !! Rsgn Commentary: Smirnov's "White wins" opening gave him an early and dramatic tactical advantage. Jagermeister showed foresight and played "Black resigns". This whole argument is getting rather weird, its topicality aside. There are a finite number of legal positions in chess. If any shows up a third time, the game is over. Thus we have a bound on the length of a legal chess game. Hence the number of games is finite, and we don't have to quibble about whether it's countably or uncountably infinite. Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu