Author: Colin Frayn
Date: 09:28:04 02/13/02
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On February 13, 2002 at 11:48:06, Jason Williamson wrote: >The actual fact of the matter is that there is a LOT of reasearch done in Japan >and other asian countries that don't have ANY interest in chess. But, otoh I am >surprised that Go engines don't use some of the stuff that chess engines use >today (large hash tables, and stuff like that). All irrelevant, surely? The point is that simple tree search is useless in Go as you have a potential branching factor of several hundreds at each ply. On a 9x9 board then maybe it's a lot more likely, but certainly not for competition 19x19. Cheers, Col
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