• GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Chess has roughly 10^44 positions. Checkers has roughly 10^20.

    That means under that metric, chess is roughly 24 orders of magnitude more complex as checkers.

    Tic tac toe has roughly 10^3 positions, or 17 orders of magnitude simpler than checkers.

    In other words, the complexity gap between chess and checkers is larger than the gap between checkers and tic tac toe.

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      5 months ago

      Maybe they should compare playing chess with playing Go.

      The number of legal board positions in Go has been calculated to be approximately 2.1×10^170, which is far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, which is estimated to be on the order of 10^80.

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      My point is that checkers actually still is very mich complex. Tictactoe is not and every board position can reasonably be managed by a human.

      With checkers, that is unfeasable. That’s why I am of the opinion that checkers is unfairly treated as “the simple game” when for humans it is far from simple.