Author: William H Rogers
Date: 14:09:17 02/22/02
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>Why is 4000 "less realistic" than 3000? It's just a number that is used to >determine RELATIVE strength between two or more players in a >game/tournament/pool. > >jm John, lets say just for the sake of making a point that 4000 turns out to be perfect chess. If that number is perfect then eventually players or computers would reach it at some point and if they do then everyones elses scores would be adjusted, but being that we are closely approaching 3000, humans that is, what would happen if we set that as the top goal. All scores would be readjusted and after people got used to them, all would be happy. There is no such thing as an infinite number in chess, because it is a game and has a final goal. The problem lies in who can discover the shortest way to obtain that goal. Most programmers work towards obtaining that goal, from start to finish, but in other areas of science people sometimes work back from the finish to the begining. Both have merits. :)
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