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by trontron 3504 days ago
modern chess programs are vastly superior to human players, regardless of one or 38 cores. stockfish has a elo rating of ~3350 (probably a little higher when running on 38 cores, not sure). carlsen has 2850. that corresponds with a 95% winning probability per game (or to be more precise: stockfish is expected to win 95% of all possible points over several chess matches)

it's hard to say if that's close to "perfect analysis", because we don't know what a perfect game will look like (chess is not a solved game). but compared to human level, one could say it's close to perfect.

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I'm not saying Stockfish isn't stronger than any human player (even the world champion), but you can't compare ratings in two different systems like that. Magnus has never played a FIDE-rated game with Stockfish, nor has Stockfish played any rated games with a human opponent.