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flawed measure of complexity

Posted By: Bob Koca
Date: Friday, 7 May 2010, at 12:00 a.m.

In Response To: Complexity (David Rockwell)

I read that article. It measures something but I wouldn't say it is the same as measuring complexity.

Take for example a game called LuckChess with the following rules:

You play a game of chess and flip 3 coins. If all coins are heads or all coins are tails then the winner of the chess game wins the Luckchess match. Otherwise player A wins if there 2 heads and player B wins if there 2 tails.

This game would rank extremely low on the complexity scale. But how is it any less complex than regular chess? The optimal strategy is exactly the same.

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