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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 04:27:41 02/15/02

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Very good reasoning , I agree.

Georg

>
>In every finite game when the rules are clear better hardware or more time can
>help
>
>If I have a program A that almost does not use time then it is easy to develop a
>program B that is going to win against A.
>
>B will try every legal move and continue by playing A against itself.
>B is going to choose the move that leaded to the best result against A.
>
>It is clear that B is going to beat A in a match and I cannot believe that B is
>not going to be at least slightly better than A against other programs.
>
>I can believe that software is very important in go and I can believe that the
>best program can beat the second best program even when the hardware of the
>second best program is 100 times faster but I cannot believe that better
>hardware cannot help without a design of the programmer not to use time
>intentionally.
>
>Uri



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