Contradictions in games?
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From: BGB / cr88192 on 1 Aug 2010 00:24 "Robert Kaufman" <Yearachmeel(a)verizon.net> wrote in message news:1668515588.35592.1280634050013.JavaMail.root(a)gallium.mathforum.org... > Hi > > So if it's not a game then what is it? > a toolbox... a means of helping in the process of transforming one thing into another from which one can derive a greater value (such as creating products or gaining money). a system by which one can learn its esoteric rules and then stroke themselves off in other peoples' faces about how smart they are and how the others' tiny and feeble brains can't hope to approach their granduer... (grr... I dislike these people... bleh...). ....
From: William Elliot on 1 Aug 2010 01:50 On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Robert Kaufman wrote: > Hi > > So if it's not a game then what is it? > But chess is a game!
From: bert on 1 Aug 2010 08:45 On 1 Aug, 03:34, Robert Kaufman <Yearachm...(a)verizon.net> wrote: > Hi > > Assuming mathematics is just some kind of game, > I was wondering, what would be a contradiction in chess? > What does it mean to say that chess is complete? There are chess rules about which moves are allowable, and which are forbidden, at various points in the game. There would be a contradiction if, playing by the rules, there was a position in which the player to move could not make a legal move, but the result of the game was not then defined by the rules. As the rules stand, if a player cannot make a legal move, the result is defined to be a draw (by stalemate) if his king is not in check, or a loss (by checkmate) if it is. Your question, I suppose, amounts to whether the stated rule is sufficiently exhaustive. --
From: Robert Kaufman on 1 Aug 2010 05:55 Hi I guess what all these replies have brought out is that there is a vast difference between mathematics and chess,but exactly what is the difference? Respectfully, Robert Kaufman
From: Aatu Koskensilta on 1 Aug 2010 10:17
Robert Kaufman <Yearachmeel(a)verizon.net> writes: > I guess what all these replies have brought out is that there is a > vast difference between mathematics and chess,but exactly what is the > difference? What's the difference between mathematics and water polo? Perhaps a more pertinent question is: just how is mathematics at all like chess? -- Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi) "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen" - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |