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Subject: Re: Perfect chess play - and still loses?!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:20:06 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?

The reason is that Quantum-chess needs to search deep enough in order to play
perfect chess and it was unable to do it in the game because it had not
9^9^9^9^9^9 years per move.

Uri




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