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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:35:57 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 17:13:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On February 13, 2002 at 13:58:41, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Some questions:
>>1)What is the rating difference from having hardware that is twice faster in >go?
>
>Approximately 0.
>
>Go programs are (in the general case) not time-bound. Making a program
>that demonstrably plays better given more time is an open problem in
>the Go world.
>
>--
>GCP

I cannot understand it.
More time should be better in every game.

Even if I suppose that we know to evaluate only checkmate in chess more time can
help because knowing the final result of the game one ply earlier can help in
part of the cases to find the right move.

I know nothing about go but more time should always help to computers and the
only question is how much.

I can understand that the benefit is clearly less than chess and I guess that
evaluating only checkmate in chess may do the benefit from doubling the speed
smaller but there still is going to be a benefit that can be proved.

Uri



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