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Subject: Re: Solving small chess

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 01:41:53 10/11/00

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

>On October 10, 2000 at 21:27:38, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 10, 2000 at 20:47:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On October 10, 2000 at 16:16:34, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 10, 2000 at 10:52:54, Pekka Karjalainen 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.
>

The problem in go doesn't seem to be the branchingfactor but the difficulty of
writing a good evaluation function.

If branchingfactor was the main problem then it would be quite impossible to
write an amazons program. ( bf of about 2000 )

Tony



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