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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: David Hanley

Date: 11:18:48 02/13/02

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>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.

Well--a tree search is needed, but surely it's going to be a heavily pruned one.
 That ought to make a hash table even more effective.

dave



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