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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:26:48 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 11:17:54, Mike Hood wrote:

>On February 13, 2002 at 11:06:12, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>This is a general question for chess programmers.
>>
>>Have you ever tried programming a Go engine?  Or do you even have an interest or
>>understanding of the game of Go?
>>
>>Just curious.
>
>Supposedly the current state of Go software only reaches a playing strength
>comparable with a chess ELO of 1500.
>
>Some people claim that this is because Go's strategy is too complex to be
>described by a computer. I prefer the explanation that it's because relatively
>little research has been done into Go programming, compared with chess
>programming. Maybe this will change some time in the future when chess software
>techniques have reached a plateau and very little improvement can be made.

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