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Michael Aigner (2008-08-02 17:13:22)
The future of chess
A game between two unlimited intellect would proceed as follows.
They sit down at the chess-board,draw the colors,and then survey the
pieces for a moment.Then either
(1)A says I resign or
(2)B says I resign or
(3)A says I offer a draw,and B replies,I accept.
(C.E.Shannon)
Don Groves (2008-08-02 23:45:46)
The future of chess...
Claude Shannon, who died in 2001, is known as the father of information theory and also wrote the first paper on computer chess in 1950. If anyone was qualified to make such a statement, it was him.
Normajean Yates (2008-08-03 03:16:24)
but that is obvious...
2-person finite game of complete information, so ... obviously true. [just stipulate that a repetition of a FEN is an auto-draw and it becomes a finite game without changing anything..]
The proof is trivial if you think about it. Writing it down formally is rather a pain but introduces useful concepts like solution trees. John von Neumann wrote it down isnt it.. [and not Claude Shannon...]
Don Groves (2008-08-03 07:17:01)
But that is obvious...
I don't know if Shannon ever tried to write a proof of his statement.
Mladen Jankovic (2008-08-04 12:45:58)
Strategy stealing
Actually, that comes from the strategy stealing argument in the game theory.
Shannon was the first to formaly study theory of chess engines. See:
http://www.pi.infn.it/%7Ecarosi/chess/shannon.txt
Don Groves (2008-08-04 23:52:18)
Thanks for the link!
Hello, Mladen -- thanks for the link to Shannon's paper!
Normajean Yates (2008-08-06 02:46:21)
Mladen thanks for the link (2nd)!
Mladen, from me too, thanks for the link to Shannon's paper!
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