So my problem with Chess is that I can't get into a completely deterministic game. The injection of a reasonable degree of randomness into a game inserts dynamics of having to plan for an uncertain future, protect against potentially risky outcomes, and change your plans on the fly.
With all due respect, that is the weakest argument against chess that I have ever heard.
Chess is ONLY deterministic in a theoretical sense.
Practically speaking, the conservative lower bound of the number of possible games was calculated by Shannon to be 10 to the 120th power. That's a big number. The mass of the visible universe is only 10^50 to 10^60 kg.
"having to plan for an uncertain future, protect against potentially risky outcomes, and change your plans on the fly."
This is a good description of what happens in pretty much every chess game.
Thank you, that's an interesting perspective I had not heard. Like you say, the determinism is true in the literal sense, but the game provides so many options that players effectively injecting randomness into the system based on the impossibility of considering all possibilities.
Can I recommend chess as a good gaming substitute ? No progressive can ever stop you from playing it - and it can hold your interest for a lifetime.
Not my screenshot, just sharing some clown world shit
The white and black pieces represent white supremacy. They said this. They’re going after it.
They'll have to take the chess pieces out of my cold dead hands.
Well, if that what it takes?
So my problem with Chess is that I can't get into a completely deterministic game. The injection of a reasonable degree of randomness into a game inserts dynamics of having to plan for an uncertain future, protect against potentially risky outcomes, and change your plans on the fly.
With all due respect, that is the weakest argument against chess that I have ever heard.
Chess is ONLY deterministic in a theoretical sense.
Practically speaking, the conservative lower bound of the number of possible games was calculated by Shannon to be 10 to the 120th power. That's a big number. The mass of the visible universe is only 10^50 to 10^60 kg.
"having to plan for an uncertain future, protect against potentially risky outcomes, and change your plans on the fly."
This is a good description of what happens in pretty much every chess game.
Thank you, that's an interesting perspective I had not heard. Like you say, the determinism is true in the literal sense, but the game provides so many options that players effectively injecting randomness into the system based on the impossibility of considering all possibilities.
That's a pretty accurate way to describe it.