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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

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.

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