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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Because the computers can calculate millions of possible moves and figure out the best one, while a human can only think of a few dozens, maybe hundred possibilities.

That’s like asking how come a computer is better at solving complex math problems when it can only do what we taught it to solve – it’s because it can do it much faster than us.

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