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Subject: Re: Some Philosophical questions on the limits of Computer chess

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:29:04 01/25/02

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On January 25, 2002 at 17:12:50, Uri Blass wrote:
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>There is a simple strategy to get chances of more than 1/(10^10000) to draw
>against the perfect player.

I suspect that this figure is absurdly too large.  But I don't have any guess as
to what it really is.

>You need only to play a random move.
>
>I believe the best player in the world can do better than it.

Unless, of course, they do far worse.  But with a record of:

Wins   Losses        Draws
0    : (10^10000)-1: 1

what will the ELO figure be?




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