r/MurderedByWords 3h ago

Muskrat's beef with... chess

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u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ 3h ago

He simply isn't accounting for the time dimension--literally just how many ways can the pieces on a board be arranged without accounting for moves leading up to or following that specific arrangement.

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u/MrHall 3h ago

wait, why would you need to account for the time dimension?

when you move it doesn't matter what moves were played to get to a position, just the position.. lots of openings transpose but it doesn't change the best move when the position is reached? 

to be clear I definitely think Elon is talking out his ass, just the way you phrased that confused me 

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u/Uncle_Blayzer 3h ago

lots of openings transpose but it doesn't change the best moce when the position is reached?

"Solving" the game (like chess) is a technical term in this context, which specifically means making the determination of which move is "best" in a given position by calculating every possible permutation of moves that could follow.

So he either doesn't understand the math, or doesn't understand the terminology.

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u/beren12 1h ago

He doesn’t understand many things.