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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:58:41 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 11:14:10, Colin Frayn wrote:

>On February 13, 2002 at 11:06:12, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>Have you ever tried programming a Go engine?  Or do you even have an interest or
>>understanding of the game of Go?
>
>Yes and yes.  Go is a fascinating game, and I must admit I actually prefer it to
>chess (heretic!).  It is, however, extremely difficult to write a program that
>plays Go to any reasonable standard.  In terms of a computer science project it
>is a terrible idea - Chess is such that it comes mainly down to the quality of
>the search algorithm, the stability of the code, and the accuracy of the
>evaluation function.  Go is different - a Go playing program must be almost
>entirely evaluation code, analysing the board in increasingly more complicated
>ways which begin to require more and more specialised knowledge.
>
>Anyway, I urge people here to learn the game - it's very cute.
>
>Cheers,
>Col

Some questions:
1)What is the rating difference from having hardware that is twice faster in go?

2)Is the difference between the best player in the world and the player that is
ranked 100th is similiar to the difference in chess?

Uri



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