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Subject: Re: Who believes Programs are still not yet GM Strength?

Author: Zheng Zhixian

Date: 07:12:56 07/19/05

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On July 19, 2005 at 00:41:18, Robin Smith wrote:

>On July 18, 2005 at 23:49:16, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On July 18, 2005 at 23:28:08, Roger D Davis wrote:
>>
>>>On July 18, 2005 at 19:42:58, William Sorin wrote:
>>>
>>>>Any more sceptics left?
>>>
>>>I guess the surprise for me is that chess has turned out to be weighted much
>>>further toward combinatorics than pattern recognition. So...search depth becomes
>>>overwhelmingly important in engine strength.
>>>
>>>I'm kind of looking for a game where pattern recognition is more important now.
>>>Not sure what that would be.
>>
>>Go

Weiqi

>Yes, go is a great game and a great answer. Even relatively weak humans still
>trounce computers at go. Another answer might be backgammon. The top backgammon
>programs are stronger than all but the very strongest humans, with whom they are
>about on par; but due to backgammon's element of chance, brute force calculation
>does not work. Backgammon programs use neural nets.

Actually I would think that the element of chance would favour computers seem
they can calculate the odds perfectly.




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