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

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:56:07 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.


I think a perfect player would evaluate each move as having one of 3 values:
positive infinity, negative infinity, or zero (win, lose, or draw).  Pawn
fractions would be irrelevant.



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