Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 09:14:55 02/22/04
With absolute correct play on both sides, is the outcome draw or win? That is the question we cannot answer now, with absolute certainty. Here is an experiment which could be done. The participants could be all-silicon or a mix of silocon and human. Write a computer program [!!!] to do take-backs automatically. In the beginning, start with a game which looks reasonably free of obvious mistakes. This game might be taken from human-human, human-silicon, or silicon-silicon praxis. Then just let the computers run, using very high search depths, a very strong engine or engines, run on an extremely fast computer, and give it a lot of time. After each game is completed, have the machine(s) programmed to go into post-mortem analysis mode and let it/them find a candidate improvement. Then make the indicated "take-back" and let it run again. This whole thing should be fully automated. [I'm not sure how to automate the humans.] Ideally, many such computers should be running in parallel but with different initial games. There is a requirement to achieve stability so that the thing doesn't go into some sort of loop revisiting the same lines over and over again. Give it a few years. Repeat this experiment a few thousand times [preferably run in parallel] to gain confidence in the findings. Conceptually easy, except for the stability part. Might cost a few $$$$. Bob D.
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