Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:41:28 05/25/05
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On May 25, 2005 at 09:10:36, Vasik Rajlich wrote: >On May 25, 2005 at 06:13:54, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>On May 25, 2005 at 01:21:18, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On May 25, 2005 at 00:54:06, Joshua Shriver wrote: >>> >>>>Just curious has any engine developers here tried or have an interest in Go >>>>engine programming? >>> >>>My main difficulty is that I would hate to labor ten years to produce something >>>that does not play as well as a good five year old Go player. >> >>I have the same problem. I am very interested in Go programming, but >>currently the tremendous difficulties scare me. >> >>On the other hand, computer chess is rapidly becoming too easy as the CPU >>speeds increase. Straightforward, unoptimised implementations of a handful >>of simple and well-known algorithms is sufficient to beat all but a tiny >>fraction of the world's chess players. No creativity and nothing more than >>the most basic programming skills is really needed. I find this rather >>depressing, and my interest in chess programming is slowly waning. >> >>Shogi looks like it has the perfect balance. It is sufficiently difficult >>to be a very interesting programming challenge, but does not look impossibly >>difficult (like go). At the moment there is an equivalent to the UCI or >>xboard protocol for Shogi and a few nice GUIs for the major operating >>systems, I will probably instantly abandon chess programming and start >>writing a shogi program instead. >> >>>I have nosed around in it. My other problem is that I don't play Go myself, so >>>it does not have the same fascination in that direction. >> >>If you have a go club in your neighborhood, I would very much recommend >>trying it. The game is much more fun to play than chess, IMHO. >> > >I think that which game you prefer is a sort of basic personality test, for >whether you like > >1) short-term or long-term thinking >2) clear-cut or open-ended problems >3) clear or vague feedback >4) to move from one micro-problem to another or to stick to one persistent theme > >etc .. > >Apparently it's been shown that chess players use only one half of their brains >during play (the half responsible for logical thinking), while go players use >both halves. > >Vas I think that both Chess and Go are based on logical thinking. If half of the brain is not responsible for logical thinking then I do not understand how it can be used for go or for every thinking game. Uri
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