Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 23:05:59 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. Chess played on a 19x19 board would >be just as complex, if not more complex, than go. If this kind of reasoning would be true, computers would be top players in 9x9 go, but they're not. Evaluating a position is much much more difficult in Go than it is in Chess, and it's, besides the branching factor, what makes the game so hard for computers (and humans as well). -- GCP
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