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Subject: Re: Go vs Chess

Author: Ricardo Rego

Date: 16:19:23 08/10/04

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On August 10, 2004 at 17:08:51, William H Rogers wrote:

>Go looks very easy when the game first starts, but after you get a few pieces on
>the board and have the possiblity of capturing all of you opponents men it then
>becomes very difficult. By winning one position you may leave yourself wide open
>for a bigger loss later on.
>With a 19 x 19 board and no set rules as to where you can place you chips, at
>least initially the game is extremely difficult to do any long range planning.
>I have followed both Go and Chess for years and although Chess is getting to
>look real nice, Go is still playing on what we in chess might call an amature
>level with no real progress to be noted.
>Bill


True. We are in agreement with a plenty number of issues here, but if you
consider 'long range planning', chess programs are not playing like a GMs (or
even IMs) too, right ?

So, may we consider Go as the most difficult game in terms of programming
problem ?

Sorry the flooding of questions!
Ricardo



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