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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 12:53:58 06/08/02

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On June 08, 2002 at 00:45:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>The "game" of GO is simpler than chess.  But the computational complexity
>is far higher.  IE chess has too many different types of pieces, different
>types of moves (promotions are a good example, as is castling and EP),
>"exceptions" (first pawn move can be 1 or two squares, pawns advance forward
>but capture diagonally) and so forth.  But the board is much smaller, which
>makes it computationally much more tractable.

A major difference is also that it is much harder to devise general
rules to evaluate a go position.

We have chessprograms playing at the level of the best human players,
but we're not close to solving the game.

Even on 9x9 boards, Go is much harder to program than chess, despite
it's very simple rules.

--
GCP



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