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Subject: Re: Will a super computer ever be programmed to beat an Arimaa master ?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 16:41:47 05/27/03

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On May 27, 2003 at 19:24:50, Brian Thomas wrote:

>On May 27, 2003 at 16:39:16, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>http://arimaa.com/arimaa/
>
>Interesting game... actually I find Go to be interesting, and poses a very
>similar problem.  I enjoy games like this because it's fun to try out on a
>friend who's never played, thus starting on equal footing, but I question how
>serious people will take this since it's geared specifically to baffle
>computers...and we already have Go for that!
>
>Brian

I think that go and arimaa are quite different. Go baffles computers because it
is hard for computers to evaluation positions very well, while arimaa just has a
huge number of possibilities at each turn. From a quick look, it seems like
arimaa will be much more tactical than go, and much easier to evaluate which
side stands better. So go may still be harder than arimaa for computers.



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