Re:Chess is just poker now
by tialaramex on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:59AM
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But if we analogise from Poker to Chess, we're talking about Heads Up, and Heads Up is definitely just soluble. A perfect strategy like Cepheus will gradually take all your money unless you also have a perfect strategy.
Whereas Chess, even AI chess, is far from solved.
Also at the most obvious level, poker is random, the strategies are over a long series of deals. Cepheus won't ever magically find a way to make its 2-7 off work against your pair of Aces, you will always make that too expensive to continue, but it wins overall because next hand it's not going to pick up garbage. Whereas every Chess game begins the same, so a hypothetical solver would just always beat you.
Whereas Chess, even AI chess, is far from solved.
Also at the most obvious level, poker is random, the strategies are over a long series of deals. Cepheus won't ever magically find a way to make its 2-7 off work against your pair of Aces, you will always make that too expensive to continue, but it wins overall because next hand it's not going to pick up garbage. Whereas every Chess game begins the same, so a hypothetical solver would just always beat you.