On Feb 25, 7:25 am, Ray Johnstone wrote:
On 24 Feb 2007 16:53:10 -0800, "

wrote:
On Feb 24, 4:36 am, "Krismoor" wrote:
[...]...if it is not possible to determine
"perfect play", how can it be possible to programme computers to play
the perfect game ?

There's no difficulty writing a program that *in principle*
will win any won chess position and draw any drawn position; getting
that program to produce answers within a decent time limit is another
matter! But not really the point [especially as I was addressing the
current situation and its difficulties, not some hypothetical future
in which a computer can analyse chess fully in real time]. ...

I don't think chess will ever be fully analysed:http://members.iinet.net.au/~ray/Chessgames.htm
/~ray

Thanks for the above link

http://archive.computerhistory.org/p....062303002.pdf.

is a link to "Programming computers to Play Chess" by Claude E Shannon

Worth a Visit.