Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 11:14:34 02/15/02
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On February 13, 2002 at 14:24:28, Uri Blass wrote: >If you take kasparov (rating close to 2800) >take a human that is losing 3-1 against kasparov(elo 2600) and continue in this >way you will have 6 humans in the list with the following ratings: >2600 >2400 >2200 >2000 >1800 >1600 > >only the next human is going to be weaker than 1500 > >suppose you take the best go player >how many humans you can find in the same way in order to get someone who is >weaker than the best chess go program? > >Is it the same number of humans? No. Someone studied this -- I forget *all* the details -- and found a much larger number for Go than for chess. This was claimed as evidence that Go is "deeper" than chess; I'm not convinced that that conclusion really follows, though it might be true anyway. -- g
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