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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:42:08 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 17:35:57, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.

Go has no checkmate. The game is over when both players agree it is over.

>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.

It doesn't. Looking deeper will only help if your evaluation is reasonable
enough. (pathology in game trees). In Go it often isn't.

--
GCP



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