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

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 15:42:51 06/19/03

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On June 19, 2003 at 16:20:06, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.
>
Off Topic but 9^9^9 is equal to:

a)9^(9^9) = 9^387420489     or
b)(9^9)^9 = 387420489^9

a) is much much bigger than b).






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