Eli5: How are computers better at video games?

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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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We make books, yet books are much better at holding stories than we are. In the same sense computers are better at calculating the odds of doing certain moves in chess.

If you think about it, most things we’ve invented are better at doing a certain task than we are. Cars move faster, elevators climb faster, knives chop faster. Games are not about thinking, they are about calculating odds, and calculating is that single thing a computer is really good at.

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