I was watching a chess video and Deep Blue, the IBM computer, was able to beat the best Chess player in the world at the time. If we made the computer and it bases its moves off of moves already made in real life shouldn’t we be able to beat computers like any other player? This isn’t chess specific but can be for any multitude of games.
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Chess is a game with fininte outcomes and predictable positions and reactions, so the trick is being able to think through all those branching future scenarios, and choose according to which conveys the greatest advantage to you, versus your opponent.
There’s a quote by Douglas Adams I’m quite fond of, and it goes like this:
>The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.
Which is really how it’s beating humans at Chess. It doesn’t have to be smart, it can just plod through every single move, then test all your possible counter-moves, and do this many, many moves ahead, far more than a human will be able to.
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