Re: The Future of Chess and Getting It "Unstuck" (potential heresy

On Apr 2, 1:09 pm, "markste...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

> When you say "turn Chess into a solved game" it sounds like something
> that will ruin the game.  When Chess is eventually solved that will be
> testimony to the state of the art of computer science and nothing
> more.  It won't have any impact whatsoever on Chess gameplay among
> humans.  Checkers was solved.  Does that mean that you or I can now
> sit down and force a draw against the world's leading Checkers
> player?  No.  Does Checkers being solved have any impact whatsoever on
> its gameplay among beginners, intermediate, or even expert players?
> No.  Not unless you happen to have a supercomputer handy that can play
> perfectly.

> All games are on a "path to being solved".  That's a consequence of
> ever increasing computational power.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Go here, since it has a bigger game
tree. Of course, computers are improving there too, but at least it
has a little time left.

Then there's the game of Gess, which seems to have been deliberately
devised to be a game for supergeniuses and extraordinarily difficult
for computers.

John Savard