stockfish weak at winning fast

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Peter Berger
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Re: stockfish weak at winning fast

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Uri wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 5:43 pm
Uri Blass wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 4:12 pmChess engines can beat 100% of human chess players and not 99.9%
I believe you are right and I was wrong so I apologise.

But this is also bad news for humanity because It mean chess doesn't need humans anymore and in a few years the game may even solved by a computer.
Good you know now, before you sounded a bit strange.

This isn't exactly bad news in my opinion though.

2. Nf3 after 1. e4 is currently kind of practically solved to a draw in the Petroff. There is also the Berlin against the Ruy. So humans with the white peaces started to play the tame innocous Guico Piano. This one is likely to be a draw too, but no human would ever be able to remember all these lines - a practical challenge for human players. The answer is open on how this opening will develop in the long term.

The last +major+ clearly human find in opening theory was the Dubov Tarrasch IMHO ( already with major computer involvement I assume) . For all we know now it killed 1. d4, too. And 1. d4 looks even more killed than 1.e4 right now.

So?

Human chess will clearly survive all these developments. Humans can't compete in a 100 meters race against a car either. But they are able to adapt. We will see different ever less clearly defined and concrete opening schemes - judging by recent tournaments the draw rate doesn't seem to go up at all in top level competition.