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Comment by nyeah

5 hours ago

Assume I want to believe exactly what you're saying. What is that, though?

a. "Has already won"

b. "Might be a year or two, or five, or ten"

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ggggffggggg  5 hours ago

You’re playing chess. You see that you have a forced mate in several moves. You’ve already won, but it will happen in 2, or 5, or 10 moves.

  • anematode  5 hours ago

    (This isn't how chess mate-finding works.)

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