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Post by morsealworth on Apr 16, 2015 12:40:43 GMT
In Axis&Allies the game outcome is determined both by strategy and chance. The trick is to adjust your strategy taking the element of chance into account. That's the best part, isn't it? After all, chess has become obsolete with creation of a computer (because of whole full-information thing), yet no one can make an AI capable of making a good strategy with incomplete info (the main reason for element of chance). |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Apr 16, 2015 14:39:36 GMT
In Axis&Allies the game outcome is determined both by strategy and chance. The trick is to adjust your strategy taking the element of chance into account. That's the best part, isn't it? After all, chess has become obsolete with creation of a computer (because of whole full-information thing), yet no one can make an AI capable of making a good strategy with incomplete info (the main reason for element of chance). I guess you could program random acts of stupidity into a chess program but it might lead to an unconvincing experience. |
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Post by morsealworth on Apr 16, 2015 16:22:54 GMT
That's the best part, isn't it? After all, chess has become obsolete with creation of a computer (because of whole full-information thing), yet no one can make an AI capable of making a good strategy with incomplete info (the main reason for element of chance). I guess you could program random acts of stupidity into a chess program but it might lead to an unconvincing experience. Exactly. The only way you can make chess any fun is by cheating. That's exactly why it's obsolete. |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Apr 16, 2015 17:00:35 GMT
I guess you could program random acts of stupidity into a chess program but it might lead to an unconvincing experience. Exactly. The only way you can make chess any fun is by cheating. That's exactly why it's obsolete. No, you can program various difficulty levels ranging from mindnumbingly simple to stupendously impossible to beat. A player can find a level that gives them a challenge and is enjoyable. |
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Post by morsealworth on Apr 16, 2015 17:21:40 GMT
Exactly. The only way you can make chess any fun is by cheating. That's exactly why it's obsolete. No, you can program various difficulty levels ranging from mindnumbingly simple to stupendously impossible to beat. A player can find a level that gives them a challenge and is enjoyable. It's still cheating. Just various levels of cheating. |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Apr 16, 2015 17:33:12 GMT
How is that cheating?
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Post by morsealworth on Apr 16, 2015 18:17:32 GMT
By definition?
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Apr 16, 2015 18:42:16 GMT
So playing chess is cheating. That makes a lot of sense.
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Post by morsealworth on Apr 16, 2015 19:36:25 GMT
Nah, playing chess against a human is two colorblind fighting over the color of a car that just went by.
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Apr 16, 2015 22:04:38 GMT
So you're a chess god then.
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Post by morsealworth on Apr 17, 2015 10:29:17 GMT
Nah, I'm a god of love and sexual relations. Relations in general, to tell the truth, but I'm mostly worshipped as a god of binding the fate together (love and sex) and as the god of making deals.
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Apr 17, 2015 12:42:47 GMT
I shall forward any inquiries regarding love and sex to your inbox.
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