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Using the doubling cube in Chess

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Friday, 5 August 2011, at 6:07 p.m.

In Response To: Using the doubling cube in Chess (Kevin Whyte)

Kevin Whyte wrote:

but this has a bit of the same feel of making players estimate the equity

"Equity" doesn't have the same meaning in chess, where the equity is either +1, –1, or 0, but you just can't tell which one it is. What you're really betting on is the probability that your opponent's errors will outweigh your own.

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