![]() ![]() ![]() If chess computers and data processing power continues to improve at the rate we have seen in the last twenty years, we may not have to wait too long for the definitive answer. I personally think that this should not be the case, particularly if White opens with a knight move, but I can see how it is not impossible. But of course, it is theoretically possible that such a winning line by Black is possible only because White’s first move creates a weakness. When we were at school in the north, this game was extensively played and in more recent times, when we ourselves were masters instead of scholars, we reduced. I am also aware that the “strategy-stealing argument” may not just involve mirroring your opponents moves - my point here was that if a winning line of play was found for Black in chess, from the start of the game, then you would think it possible that White could win in the same way by using Black’s first move in this line as White’s first move. I am aware that it is possible for symmetrical position to be zugzwang (king and pawn against king provides an obvious example), so I suppose it is possible, but unlikely, as you say. It’s perfectly possible for a symmetrical position to be zugzwang, although the evidence to date is that the array is not such a position and, indeed, seems statistically to favour White by a respectable margin. White cannot simply mirror Black’s moves, because whatever Black’s optimum response is to White’s first move, White can’t play it himself first since Black has not yet played any move at all. ![]()
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