这些年来,我最常被问及的问题大概是:“你能向前看多少步?”可以说,这个问题既深奥又无知。它直指国际象棋的核心,但也几乎无法回答,就好像问一个画家创作时画了多少笔,好像这与画的品质有关。我们无法将国际象棋简化为算术问题,第一个原因是国际象棋中的计算数字非常巨大。每步棋可能会有四个或五个应着,每个应着又对应四个 The most common question I have been asked over the years is probably: “How many steps can you look forward to?” It can be said that the issue is both profound and ignorant. It points to the heart of chess, but it’s almost impossible to answer, as if asking how many pens were drawn by an artist as if it were related to the quality of the painting. The first reason we can not simplify chess into arithmetic problems is the huge number of calculations in chess. Each move may be four or five should be, each should correspond to four