Author: ALI MIRAFZALI
Date: 14:31:21 01/25/02
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On January 25, 2002 at 17:25:56, Albert Silver wrote: >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. Yes indeed there are many roads to a draw.
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