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Subject: Re: What is the thinking game that gives programmers more money?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 16:21:52 06/07/02

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On June 07, 2002 at 15:39:53, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On June 07, 2002 at 15:37:59, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>the only thing making
>>it hard is it's incredibly high branching factor when trying to analyze
>>variations.
>
>'Ahem'

If chess were played on a 19x19 board with 38 pieces on each side, it would be
extremely more complex as well. The game of go is on a complexity level of
tic-tac-toe. If tic-tac-toe were played on a 19x19 board it would be complex
too. The only thing making go a more difficult game to succeed at is the larger
size of it's board. So when I hear go players say that their game is so much
harder, it irritates me because it is not. Chess played on a 19x19 board would
be just as complex, if not more complex, than go.

Do you think tic-tac-toe is innately more complex or more difficult than chess?
Of course it's not. It's drastically simpler. However, if it were played on a
1000x1000 board then all of the sudden it would be exponentially more complex
than chess, go, or any other game. The game itself is not complex however.

Russell



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