Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 12:28:43 06/19/03
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On June 19, 2003 at 15:13:43, Terry Giles wrote: > >A poser (just for fun) > >The perfect chess-playing machine 'Quantum-Chess' amazingly resigned its first >game after only twenty moves in its match against the current human world >champion Kay Sar. The Japanese GM opened the game with her favourite g4 and >after reaching an interesting and apparently equal position ‘Quantum-Chess' >promptly resigned. > >Question: Assuming the machine really can play perfect chess, and Kay Sar (3015 >elo) cannot, why did ‘Quantum-Chess’ resign? Dear Terry, It's my guess that this poser is similar to: "Which would prevail, an irresistable force or an immovable object?" Clearly both can't exist at the same time. So if Black doesn't lose by force after 1 g4, then it's impossible for a "perfect" chess player (machine or human) to lose to an imperfect one. Sincerely, Stephen
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