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Subject: Re: About Go

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:42:42 12/01/02

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On December 01, 2002 at 07:26:37, jefkaan wrote:

>On November 28, 2002 at 08:28:41, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>Obviously the proper question to ask would have been "Who wins a 2x2 game of Go
>>with ruleset XYZ". :)
>
>maybe, but i suspect 2x2 Go is humbug; smallest conventional
>Go variant is 9x9 (eg program Igowin); also i suspect
>that the best computer program in this variant would
>be able do outplay the strongest human.
>Its only when the board gets larger, 13x13, and especially
>19x19 that the (programming) problems start.
>best regards,
>jefk

What is the maximal size of the board when go is solved by computers?
Are there tablebases for endgames that go programs use?
What is the number of legal positions in go nxn(a simple upper bound is 3^(n^2)?

Let start from n=3 because I understand that people do not agree about the rules
when n=2.

Uri



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