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Remove Antichess because it's solved #3526

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

It looks like Antichess is solved. It's better to remove solved games to avoid cheating (rating). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_Chess#cite_ref-solve_4-0

niklasf commented 7 years ago

Watkins antichess solution does not change much for human play. No human can ever memorize the proof tree. Additionally cheating using the tree is potentially easier (but definitely not harder) to detect than cheating with an engine.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Will solved games be removed from Lichess at all?

niklasf commented 7 years ago

I don't see why, unless the solution makes the game trivial. No such solution is expected for any of the variants any time soon.