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Subject: Re: Solving small chess

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 23:47:09 10/10/00

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On October 11, 2000 at 00:32:23, Uri Blass wrote:

>I believe that 6*6 chess is easier than 8*8 chess also for programs.
>I think that increasing the board is going to give more problems for computers.
>I know that the game go is hard for computers because the board is 19*19.

Go is hard for computers because the initial branching factor over 300, the
material count is harder to judge, the positional features are more abstract,
and there are localized cases that require lots of search depth.

Not having tried to program Go, that's my take on it.

bruce




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