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Subject: Re: Advances in computer chess/science (OT)

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 07:57:17 01/05/03

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On January 05, 2003 at 10:43:54, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On January 05, 2003 at 09:42:37, Alessandro Damiani wrote:
>
>>Physics is all about approximation. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
>Nonsense.

Of course it is. All theories so far have been approximations and even for the
simplest problems one makes allways several assumptions and approximations.

But I think that comparing Chess to Physics is a bad idea. Chess is well defined
and it is theoreticaly solvable (only finite number of positions). It is more
similar to Maths resp. to algebraic structures - this depends of course from the
point of view: focussing on the positions or on search trees.


Rafael B. Andrist



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