Right now I think you could compress chess games for fun and profit . Since chess databases have come along higher level chess players can look pretty far ahea

Right now I think you could compress chess games for fun and profit . Since chess databases have come along higher level chess players can look pretty far ahead. We are reaching the point where if you study your opponent you can pregame it but studying what openings they make and prepping for openings. But now we have come to the point if you can memorize large portions of chess databases you know optimal play given the database because if anyone has played the game and gets any advantage out of it people will play the line. It would be interesting to take the chess databases see their compression ratio and then how long would it take to lose against swordfish.