"Play Chess With God"
On the Bell Labs website, Ken Thompson maintains a link to some of his tablebase data. The headline reads, "Play chess with God."
Regarding Stiller's long wins, Tim Krabbé struck a similar note:
"A grandmaster wouldn't be better at these endgames than someone who had learned chess yesterday. It's a sort of chess that has nothing to do with chess, a chess that we could never have imagined without computers. The Stiller moves are awesome, almost scary, because you know they are the truth, God's Algorithm – it's like being revealed the Meaning of Life, but you don't understand one word."
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