Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:25:39 01/25/02
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On January 25, 2002 at 17:07:46, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>>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?
>>
>>It would be zero, unless it was perfect also. The perfect player would win
>>every game and get all the ELO points. The imperfect player would lose all the
>>games and get an ELO of zero.
>
>Maybe. The imperfect player may not find all the best moves, but that doesn't
>mean that all the moves it plays are losing.
Being able to see 5900 plies ahead means that any microscopic slip along the way
by the opponent will bring a loss if it can bring a loss. I hypothesize that a
2800 player will score zero points against a perfect player. Playing around the
clock, perhaps once in a trillion centuries, the imperfect player might gain 1/2
of a point. Once in a trillion millenia maybe a full point. But it won't be
enough to pull his ELO above zero.
I further hypothesize that every chess game ever played to date has a mistake in
it (and by both parties if at least 2 ply are completed). Does not mean that we
can find it.
Of course, if it turns out that 1. d4 always wins, and there are games that go:
1. d4 {black resigns} 1-0
Then I'm wrong.
;-)
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