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Subject: Re: What ELO is perfect chess?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:53:42 02/25/02

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On February 24, 2002 at 23:20:29, Robin Smith wrote:

>On February 24, 2002 at 23:01:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 22, 2002 at 14:21:01, Paul Doire wrote:
>>
>>>When chess is "figured out" what ELO will that equate to?
>>>
>>>Paul
>>
>>
>>+infinity.  That will produce a probability of 1.0 that the perfect
>>player will always win and never make a mistake.  This assumes that
>>chess is won for white.  If it is a draw, then the answer is different.
>
>How does this perfect player manage to avoid ever getting the black pieces?

Lucky.  But remember, there is only one perfect player in my assumption.  And
if he plays white (assuming white wins) then he wins.  If he plays black, then
assuming white makes one mistake (and he must since he is not perfect) then
black at least draws and probably wins.




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