24 January 2006

Theory of Games

As I dive into a formalized course on game theory in depth, I find myself amazed that our modern computers, despite their incredible processing power, are still essentially unable to "solve" the game of chess. While they can effectively simulate nuclear explosions and various other incredibly complex mathematical simulations, a complete rollback analysis of chess is still out of their grasp. Amazing... and a bit dizzying to think of the computers that *will* be able to solve chess through this fashion.

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