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Subject: Re: Go programming

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:13:44 02/13/04

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On February 13, 2004 at 08:34:41, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On February 13, 2004 at 08:26:57, Dr. Oliver Brausch wrote:
>
>>On February 12, 2004 at 15:21:58, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>Hogwash.  Computers will have more compute power than the human brain long
>>>before a century passes.
>>>
>>
>>I am not so sure about this, Dann. I have not played Go a lot, but it is
>>really a very stratetical game. Chess is both stratetical and tactical, which
>>is the fascinating point of chess.
>
>Actually, this could be said about Go as well.  The difference is that in
>Go, tactics rarely decide the game if the difference in strength between
>the two players is big.  In games between players of similar strength,
>Go can be tactically extremely complicated (even more so than chess, I
>would say).
>
>Tord

What is the definition of tactics?
You can say that everything is tactics if you search deep enough.

Uri



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