Author: Sandi Ordinario
Date: 08:47:45 12/13/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 12:35:19, Edward Seid wrote: >On December 11, 2002 at 12:23:22, Sandi Ordinario wrote: > >> Western Chess - 10 >> Go - 9 or 9.5 >> Xianggi - 7 >> Shogi - 4 >> Othello _ 2 > >It's interesting that you would rank Western Chess as more complex than Go. >Western chess programs are GM-strength. Are Go programs equally capable? > >I know one Shogi player who tells me that the ability of the available Shogi >programs is lacking, but I wonder if that is because it is complicated to >program a Shogi program or because there has not been much interest in producing >a good Shogi program as there has been a good western Chess program. Hi, My assessment of the games are from experience only not, as a programmer since I am not qualified by any stretch of the imagination as such. I have some friends who are addicted to GO (and play Chess to a lesser degree). Some of them think Go is the world's most complex strategical game. Of course I disagree since although I have essentially 6 different 'men' in chess, every man moves differently whereas in Go they all move the same except that you have to beat the opponent in constricting his pieces in certain areas much like Othello which is a variant of Go to a smaller scale. Of course you may have scores of pieces in Go but the moves are the same. The strategy may be more complex than Chess in some ways but you have to have probably a deeper analysis and pattern recognition due to move variance to win in Chess. My take. Sandi
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