Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine. Parent comment
It says that if the game cannot end in a draw, then one of the two players must have a winning strategy (i.e. force a win).
It made me think it didn't apply in situations where the other player could force a draw.
Reading the linked article[1] though made it more clear what it's about, and I agree with what you said.
[1]: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/FS23j.03/zermelo.pdf
There are no comments on this comment yet.
It says that if the game cannot end in a draw, then one of the two players must have a winning strategy (i.e. force a win).
It made me think it didn't apply in situations where the other player could force a draw.
Reading the linked article[1] though made it more clear what it's about, and I agree with what you said.
[1]: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/FS23j.03/zermelo.pdf