Comment by umanwizard

11 days ago

That's hard to answer because the advantage is essentially infinitely large. Engines never lose or draw against unassisted humans. Any modern chess engine, if it plays 100 games against any human (even magnus), will have a record of 100 wins, 0 draws, and 0 losses. This is true both in standard chess and Chess960.

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nilslindemann  11 days ago

This is most definitely wrong. There will be some draws and even a few wins, though that's very rare indeed.

  • umanwizard  10 days ago

    When is the last time a human has beaten a computer in a fair chess game?

    • nilslindemann  10 days ago

      A fair match has never been played between humans and computers. Let's say we have a fair match:

          * 100 games, to have some statistical relevance.
    * One move per day, so that being tired is no disadvantage (engine can ponder all day).
    * Human has access to endgame tablebases and opening databases, like the engine.
    * Human can make notes and has a software like Chess Position Trainer, which can min max, like the engine.

      If the human is a GM with Elo 2700+ I predict 25 draws and 5 wins for the human. The engine wins 70 games.

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