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Subject: Re: Solve it? Why?

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 07:30:26 03/17/00

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I disagree.

I think that even the best humans players are children playing a god's game. If
the game was ever solved, there would be no way for a human to compete and even
draw one game against a perfect program (unless he cheated by having two perfect
programs play against each other multiple times and then played the exact
previously played game against the program). The endgame complexities alone are
more than most GMs can master.

Chess is like a jungle with a series of ravines. One wrong step and you are
finished.

A perfect program would know the entire terrain for hundreds of miles. The human
would still only be able to see for a few miles and then, not necessarily
everything within that range.

Additionally, a perfect program would know that it is playing a human. Hence, it
would steer the human towards tactically complex positions where it has the
perfect advantage. ;)

KarinsDad :)



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