Re:Ease (Score 1)

In chess, the current state of the art is that all 7 piece end games are solved. It takes a long time in chess to get from 32 pieces to 7 pieces. So while this is significant and an advantage for the computer, the game may very well be won or lost long before we get down to 7 pieces. In my mind, the real advantage is the opening book. The computer is usually loaded with a complete encyclopedia of all known openings and all refutations in the opening as well as their evaluations. Take away the opening book, and a computer would perform quite poorly.