Author: Angrim
Date: 02:39:54 02/13/04
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On February 12, 2004 at 15:12:18, Roy Eassa wrote: >In December, I sort of got into the game of Go. Part of its fascination for me >is how it differs from chess with regard to creating a strong program. Methods >based primarily on tree searching apparently do not work in Go, for 2 main >reasons: first, the branching factor is much, much higher than in chess, and >second, once you've arrived at an end-node (position) to evaluate, there's no >known method of coming up with a reasonable evaluation. I took a look at GO a few years ago, my conclusion was that once everyone agrees on what the rules of GO are, it will be an interesting project. > >Some people say that no Go program will be stronger than the best humans for at >least another century, if ever! Today's best Go programs are far weaker than >any Go professional. Some people say funny things. A century ago computers were the stuff of science fiction. <big snip> >Two additional points: > >First, I think it's quite a bit easier to create an engine that plays Go legally >than it is to create one that plays chess legally. Even doing the GUI yourself >isn't too hard, since it's mainly just black & white stones on a grid. That >should encourage more people to try. There are multiple rulesets for GO, not only national rule sets, but even between different tournaments. Tromp-Taylor helps with this, but last I checked that ruleset wasn't universally accepted. >Second, I realize that the market for Go products is pretty tiny in the Americas >and only medium-sized in Europe. But I think there's a HUGE market in Asia, >which can only grow as Asia's economies continue to grow quickly. Thus I think >that any product created would have to be marketed to Asia (primarily?) for big >financial success. So to make money at GO, I would almost certainly need to learn at least one of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean? >Bottom line: I think there's a huge gap in the market that SOMEBODY will get >rich from at some point in the not-too-distant future. And Go is a pretty >interesting game, even though "chess" is considered a dirty word to many serious >Go players. I expect that someone will make lots of money at it, and I expect that they will live in Asia. Angrim
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