The Game of Chess
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Interesting question. This assumes that "perfection" involves one solution, which may not be the case. On any given move, one play may be as correct as another. Whether or mot solving chess (assuming it can be solved, which I'm not sure) would lead to a draw or a win for white, well, who knows - but not sure it matters... People still play connect four/checkers and tic tac toe even those have been solved (the latter without the aid of a computer) Humans err... Thats how we roll...
ThePeanutMonster wrote:
Interesting question. This assumes that "perfection" involves one solution, which may not be the case. On any given move, one play may be as correct as another. Whether or mot solving chess (assuming it can be solved, which I'm not sure) would lead to a draw or a win for white, well, who knows - but not sure it matters... People still play connect four/checkers and tic tac toe even those have been solved (the latter without the aid of a computer) Humans err... Thats how we roll...
I see your point, you may be right about that of more than one move. And I think if chess is ever solved (interesting idea), of course there would be people who would play it, but chess would lose a lot of its prestige.
Agree with that!
Dec 29, 2011
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I think that if each player played perfectly, white would win because of the initiative derived from having the first move.
I believe we'll have the answer in 20 years or less.
So the game will change to a new form (10x10 with new pieces, 960, capablanca chess... Who knows?)
At the end, the game itself is just a math problem. All the spirit is on us.
pangareh wrote:
I believe we'll have the answer in 20 years or less.
So the game will change to a new form (10x10 with new pieces, 960, capablanca chess... Who knows?)
At the end, the game itself is just a math problem. All the spirit is on us.
20 years, even given the ridiculous size of the problem? Hmm, I'm not so sure.
And even if (or when) we know what happens with perfect play, we imperfect humans can go on playing and enjoying regular chess in the knowledge that we will never come close to the computers. You're right about spirit though!
Let's say that there are two chess players that play against each other. If they play a regular opening, and they play the rest of the game absolutely perfectly, would the game end in a draw? Is chess based on blunders, or at least, inaccuracies, and the capacity of the other player to capitalize on them? Or on the other hand, it's the skill of the chess player that makes the other player make them? What do you guys think about this?