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

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 09:50:03 01/26/02

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On January 25, 2002 at 17:53:39, Dann Corbit wrote:

>A perfect player, by
>definition makes no mistakes.  If there is a move that is one trillionth of a
>pawn better than any others, then he takes it.  If there is any way to lose at
>all during any move of the game, then it will occur playing against the perfect
>player.


Ah.. But a perfect player knows the "correct" result of each move. I doubt he
will score the position using stastic evalution scores like one trillionest of a
pawn..

if the game is a draw with perfect play, objectively there is no "best move",
sure there are tricky moves that can lead an imperfect player to lose, but you
can't objectively say which move is better..

Unless the perfect player is not only perfect in seeing all the moves, but also
perfect in understanding his opponent's psychology, knowing exactly what kinds
of position he will trip up on..

But that is cheating..You might as well postulate god playing then..



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