Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:12:50 01/25/02
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On January 25, 2002 at 17:06:50, karen Dall Lynn wrote: >On January 25, 2002 at 16:46:38, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: > >>I would like to know the opinion of the readers of this forum on the following >>questions. >>1.What would be the Elo rating of the perfect chessplayer? >>2.Are there natural limits to the strenght that can be achieved in chess >>for a computerchess player? (Not the present centuary but in any future;that >>is what I mean by natural limits). >>3.If the rating of perfect player is say x ;what would be the rating of >>the stongest computer player ever(that is the best chessprogram that can be >>ever contructed useing computer technology) .It would be x-?.Or would it be x? > >These are very interesting questions; they're not useful to any practical >concern for now, but are food for thought yet they can be answered only for an >ideal world. As one day a Turing Machine was taken as naked of any practical >application (posterity proved it to be a blunder), I believe at least one of >these questions might give room to some sc fi or fantasy. > >Let's wonder then. > >Indeed if we try to get empiricaly closer for instance to "the perfect chess >player" we see that it sounds at least to me as "the perfectly spherical horse". >A chess player is a cognitive agent and as such it cannot be perfect in this >world of ours. It makes some sense only under the Reich of reason. > >But if you press the inquiry about what would be the rating of a perfect player, >even fom a purely abstract point of view, I would say this question is imprecise >if we analyse its own terms. The rating of a perfect player would not be a fixed >number. Even ignoring the beauty and the art of the all-powerful strategy of a >perfect chess player, from a quantitative point of view he would never lose or >draw. No There is a simple strategy to get chances of more than 1/(10^10000) to draw against the perfect player. You need only to play a random move. I believe the best player in the world can do better than it. Uri
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