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Why do just make stuff up?

Kramnik (world champion at the time) vs deep Fritz 06 result kramnik lost 4-2 (4 draws 2 losses) with DF limited to only calculating 8 million moves per second and restricted to only calculating 5 moves ahead at a time. With no reprogramming between games.

Computers have also won both man vs machine world tournaments.

The only time Humans can beat competition grade chess programs nowadays is when they are limited in hardware restricting the speed.

In 09 a program running on a mobile phone qualified for a grandmaster tournament. There's a reason the man vs machine grandmaster tournament hasn't been held since 05 it's because the champs refuse to play now because they can't win.

As per my previous post this doesn't at all make a computer "smart" only a very good calculater. The "brain" is the programmer, an example of this is desktop chess "games" that even on their impossible settings get annihilated by pros as they aren't programmed anywhere near as well as the tournament machines that have chess masters, maths geniuses and the best programmers in the world working on them.

It's no longer a contest, still take that program and apply it to flipping a coin and it loses 7 out of 10 games.

Why? Because the program works on statistics which means after around 50,000 or more flips the statistics become stable. The coin will land 53% to 47% and for a machine that works on best case scenario with no next step it knows that 53% beats 47% and so it chooses 53% everytime.

In order to win a coin toss programmers had to introduce a randomiser because straight odds weren't suited to winning a coin toss.