Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 16:54:26 06/07/02
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On June 07, 2002 at 19:21:52, Russell Reagan wrote: > 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. So that the rest of us know how seriously to take these pronouncements, would you mind telling us your grading at go? By the way, tic-tac-toe on a 19x19 board is trivial. Gomoku (which is a little like a more complicated version of tic-tac-toe, played on a 19x19 board) is not trivial but is (1) much easier than chess and (2) solved by computers. -- g
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