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Subject: Re: To Uri and Hyatt

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:12:11 01/18/05

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On January 18, 2005 at 10:59:10, James T. Walker wrote:

>On January 18, 2005 at 10:47:42, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 18, 2005 at 08:17:27, Madhavan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>>i deny that,strongest program running on a faster hardware should not get a draw
>>>>>or lose in many games against super grandmasters,if it does then it is
>>>>>considered as not solved
>>>>
>>>>Solution of chess only means that the solver will never lose a match.
>>>>It does not mean not getting a draw or a loss.
>>>
>>>
>>>then consider there are 5 grandmasters and 1 program playing in the tournament
>>>that program is said to be "chess solvable",it does not lose to any of the
>>>grandmasters but drew with 2 grandmaster
>>>one of the grandmaster drew the machine but won all the game against other
>>>grandmasters,then that grandmaster will be declared as event winner,but loses
>>>few game in another event then what is your point?
>>
>>The point is that solving chess does not mean being able to win every
>>tournament.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>Maybe not but if computers ever solve chess and I doubt it will happen, then
>I'll bet no GM will be able to draw a game or else computers will be banned from
>all tournaments.  ( Or are they banned already?)
>:-)

If humans learn the perfect game and repeat it against the chess solver then the
chess solver will not be able to score more than 50%.

solving chess is not enough to win tournaments and you need not to be
deterministic.

Uri



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