Author: Albert Silver
Date: 14:25:56 01/25/02
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On January 25, 2002 at 17:19:17, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On January 25, 2002 at 17:07:59, Uri Blass wrote:
>[snip]
>>Even the player who play random moves is going to get more than 0% against the
>>perfect player if you play enough games.
>
>I don't think this is a known result, but the one possibility that it might come
>true is if there are an infinite number of games played, the imperfect player
>could accidentally play a perfect game as white and win a point, or play nearly
>perfectly and obtain a draw.
I don't think that's necessary, unless by playing nearly perfectly you just mean
avoiding losing moves. The way you put it, it sounds as if there are very few
non-losing moves (i.e. a narrow road to avoid losing against perfect play)
whereas I believe there are many many roads to a draw that even perfect play
from the other side would not easily avoid.
Albert
>
>However, since chess ELO figures are integral values, his ELO will still be
>zero, on average.
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