Re: Chess vs. Poker vs. Computer
"Perhaps you think we have some God given skill to play poker that is not theoretically possible in computer. I am sure you can start a thread in SMP forum and get 100 responses as to why exactly God made poker only playable by humans but allowed Computers to reign supreme over the much more beautiful game of chess. My feeling is that if similar time and money is spent working on computer poker, the programs will have success comparable to chess"
Head up games yes. Not ring games or tournaments. Reason being again that the algorithms that beat the best players in chess work just fine against lesser players. Switch to poker though and the computer will be leaving a lot of money on the table against suckers while human experts are extracting more. And trying to fix that problem in a non exploitable way would be almost impossible.
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