Comment Re:Frustrating (Score 1) 63
Well, there are limited options on a chess game. You just have 64 positions and 32 pieces, there's a limited number of plays. That makes easy for a computer to beat humans. The game is nearly deterministic, no randomness as in poker.
Just because there is a limited number of options because of rules on movement etcetera, that doesn't mean that this limited number of plays isn't a bloody huge number beyond the capacity of most computers. Imagine the starting position of a chess game: white has 20 moves, and black has the same 20 moves. That is already 400 combinations, after only 1 move. In the next move, there are a few more options because a bishop can escape, say 25 options, same for black. That's a quarter of a million possibilities after only 2 moves.
Besides, brute force doesn't get you far. There is the "horizon problem", where a chess computer thinking x moves ahead, will keep pushing back threats until they are x+1 moves away, only to reappear on the horizon in the very next move. It takes more than brute force to work around that.
Yes, i guess you could call chess deterministic, but perhaps not, given the huge number of possibilities. And since you make the comparison with poker... I dare to guess that there are more possible chess games than poker games, given a limit on the amount of money involved.