Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 21:08:57 03/17/00
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On March 17, 2000 at 10:30:26, KarinsDad wrote: >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. ;) > chess... like love, like music has the power to make men happy - Tarrasch if chess is indeed a substitute for life... then just enjoy it... :) - pilgrimdan >KarinsDad :)
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