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Subject: Re: Board games and mathematical complexity: a poll

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 09:54:47 12/11/02

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On December 11, 2002 at 12:00:12, Edward Seid wrote:

>Please rank the following games in order of mathematical (programming)
>complexity.  Also, if you can, provide a degree of magnitude to quantify your
>ranking.
>
>Western Chess
>Shogi
>Go
>Xiangqi (Chinese Chess)
>Othello
>
>Also, feel free to add any other games I didn't include.

This is hard to answer as the question is not clear.
Do you mean:
1) the amount of programming required to produce a playing program?
2) the amount of programming required to produce the best playing program?
3) the amount of programming required to produce a (human) world-champion level
playing program
4) The amount of research done in programming a playing program (which reduces
complexity for the programmer as ideas can be copied)

For any of these questions you will get a different ranking. As I don't know all
games and certainly don't know the status in the programming of these games I
can't answer your question for all of them though. Perhaps the easiest to answer
would be ranking number 2. I think Vincent already did that.

Richard.



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