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Elon Musk argues with chess.com (twitter.com/elonmusk)
5 points by tosh 29 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


It's fashionable to hate on Elon but he is right in principle - the game is in fact way smaller than often portrayed. Explanation why: https://x.com/TCzajka/status/2095927509389136163?s=20

Realistically we would need some smart way to prune the tree to solve chess - some way to prove that this "obviously winning position" or that "obvious draw" is in fact winning/draw so we don't need to do exhaustive search in every branch.




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