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> It would be hard to simulate Kasparov as if he were taught chess in Capablanca’s time (maybe not impossible and a fascinating project, I just don’t see how yo
by msbarnett 5y ago
> It would be hard to simulate Kasparov as if he were taught chess in Capablanca’s time (maybe not impossible and a fascinating project, I just don’t see how you’d do it).
I don't think they were suggesting that's the result they wanted - if you could somehow magically reanimate Capablanca in real life and pit him against peak Kasparov, he might lose badly.
A neural net having the same outcome is essentially what's being asked for. Kasparov raised on Capablanca's era chess or vice versa would be unrecognizably different players, and I don't think anybody expects an AI to simulate their soul.
- thom 5y agoFair enough. I don’t think this is as interesting an experiment as people think though. Nobody wants to see Morphy on zero points but that’s what would happen.
- thom 5y agoI already want to take this back because Morphy probably would pick up points if we ran a tournament on the basis of all official and unofficial world champions, plus people with openings named after them. But the correlation between date of peak and performance would be extremely high.