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Subject: Re: Computer Go Report

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 14:33:14 09/13/05

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On September 13, 2005 at 16:10:19, David Mitchell wrote:

>On September 13, 2005 at 09:49:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 13, 2005 at 08:29:49, TEERAPONG TOVIRAT wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Thanks for your report. But I disagree here...
>>>
>>>>Chess is a battle, Go is a war...
>>>
>>>Chess is 80% combinational 20% positional game.
>>>While Go is 99->100% positional game.
>>
>>How did you calculate the percentage?
>>
>>>Computer Go can't beat human because of this.
>>
>>No
>>The only reason is that programmers did not write programs that are good enough
>>to do it.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Programmers do not write strong Go programs, because they don't know how to do
>that for Go.
>
>And why don't they know?
>
>Because Go is 99->100% a positional game. :)

That has not been my experience with Go.  I have found it to be quite tactical.
I have Go books with hundreds of tactical problems in them and these are exactly
the sort of things that one must analyse in a game.

Games can easily be decided or influenced by tactical mistakes.  Of course Go
has a strong positional component, but the tactics play a very important role
too.

It may be true that Go is more positional and less tactical than Chess but that
is hard to quantify.

cheers,
Peter

>
>Dave



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