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		mattmaroon on Dec 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Matt Maroon: Why I Quit Playing Poker For A Livin... They don't brute force only because processor power isn't sufficient to do so. Eventually they will cease to prune and will be unbeatable. I'd never say chess is trivial, it's just far less complex than poker.

jules on Dec 4, 2007 [–]

> Eventually they will cease to prune and will be unbeatable.

No, they won't. The universe isn't big enough for a computer that would play brute force in a reasonable amount of time.

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