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Subject: Re: Go programming

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 14:43:10 02/13/04

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On February 13, 2004 at 16:22:22, Janosch Zwerensky wrote:

>Hi,
>
>>The main difficulty in programming Go is that there is no known fast evaluation
>>function that is anywhere near as reliable as even the simplest chess evaluation
>>function.  Life & death is the main problem here, and the current approach is to
>>put lots of local search into the evaluation function.
>
>As a go programmer, do you think that building a go machine as in "doing the
>local life and death searches in hardware" would significantly improve things?

Not significantly because I'm not confident the current paradigm is very
effective.

>
>Regards,
>Janosch



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