Author: Nicolas GUIBERT
Date: 07:33:34 08/13/02
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> >In international checkers a strong player (one of the first 10) convincigly won >against the program Buggy, winning also some games at 5 mins !! > Hi there, Actually, I am the programmer of the 10x10 draughts program Buggy. Let me add some words about this discussion. N'Diaga Samb indeed won a match against Buggy. This was however a very close call. Out of 13 games, the computer had 3 winning positions, but unfortunately failed to win any. On the contrary, the human player (world number 11) won the two sets of the match (one game per set), using his winning chances better. In international draughts, I believe that there is a lot room for man-machine matches. Indeed, even if some day the computer beats the world champion, he will be able to win a revenge, and this swing could last for some years. The game has both tactics and strategy. This means that if a human player manages to avoid tactical positions, it can still win the game, and this probably also in twenty years' time. I also don't think the number of different pieces in a game has anything to do with the complexity of the game. This definitely has to do with the complexity of the rules, but not of the game. But well that's a common mistake that most people do and that harms so much the image of the game. What if we said that Chess is more complex than Draughts because the pieces are nicer to look at ???? Well obviously this is irrelevant and has only to do with the rules. Same for the number of different pieces. Chess has a better image, is nicer to look at, and has more complex rules. Sure. But as rightfully stated earlier in this thread, Othello, Chess, Draughts, Go, are all, too complex for our human brains. Therefore they deserve to be respected equally. Nicolas Guibert.
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