Re:"we" won? (Score 1)

>And you also do not understand chess. >Chess is a drawn game by default. A >"perfect" player could not beat you >unless you made a mistake. No. This is an entirely open question. My guess is that a "perfect" game of chess is a draw with KRP vs. KR (ie White has a material advantage but can't force a win). But that is only a guess. The simple fact is that we don't know, and never will know (the problem size is way, way, way, way, way beyond knowing) the value of a "perfect" game of chess. >But who cares? It is a linear game. No. It's exponential. Specifically, exponential with a branching factor of something averaging around 20 per ply. Pruning algorithms reduce the branching factor of a search to something between 3 and 4, but it is still exponential. And, for what it is worth... Petrosian was a hack. Kasparov is the best chess player (human vs. human or human vs. computer) the world have ever seen. Tal, or perhaps Fischer, had the most style, but Kasparov would beat either over the board.