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Last month, we talked about themes that blurred into the philosophical, but also into insanity. Jan Sprenger combines both: His profession is philosophy, his recent mastery of endgame studies is insane. Yours Truly sent a few questionnaires to Jan Sprenger, the results of the interview as well as a selection of his studies is presented below. | Photo: Pixabay + Wikipedia
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As seen in Douglas Adams’ masterpiece
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy or in Isaac Asimov’s
The Last Question, computers, given enough time, might be able to solve every question. Not always will two words “Fiat Lux” be the outcome of their research, nor the answer to life, the universe and everything, however, arguments are made that computers might technically be able to give the solution to chess problems, yet lack what a human would be able to understand: the knowledge about similar ideas shown before. No twomover ever was really solved by a computer in that way (sadly I forgot who wrote such idea many years ago, I apologize for not being able to attribute it).