Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 01:22:26 06/20/03
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On June 20, 2003 at 04:18:11, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >On June 20, 2003 at 02:29:52, Terry Giles wrote: > >>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? >> >> >>ANSWER >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >>v >> >>‘Quantum-Chess’ plays perfect chess and as such saw that after Kay Sar’s 20th >>move its position was lost (white mates in 47 moves) and it assumed, almost >>certainly erroneously, that its human opponent would find the correct >>continuation to win the game. Kay Sar had been partly lucky in finding the first >>twenty moves of a perfect chess game. If ‘Quantum-Chess’ had been unable to >>utilise its opening book, which in this particular opening line was twenty moves >>deep, it would have resigned immediately after Kay Sar’s opening move of g4 >>(white mates in 66 moves). > >The programmers of ‘Quantum-Chess’ are a bit stupid, It make no sens to use an >opening book for un perfect chess player AND the programmers made the programs >resign very early, they're amateur in the computer-chess world I guess !! ;-) Amateur is not the right term I think; "newbie" or "beginner" are more suitable, sorry to all non-professional for this mistake !! ;) > > > >> >>Note: ‘Quantum-Chess’ as its name implies plays chess by utilising massively >>parallel quantum computation and therefore is able to play chess perfectly ;-) >>However lacking as it does any psychological dimension it failed to realise that >>its opponent would almost certainly be unable to find the winning continuation >>from the resigned position. ‘Quantum-Chess’ should have played the opponent and >>not the board. >> >>THERE’S HOPE FOR US ALL!
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