Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:42:02 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. :) > >Dave No this is not the reason that they do not know (otherwise they could have also problems with Backgammon). In BackGammon positional knowledge is more important than calculations but it does not prevent the top programs to play well. I do not know much about go and I do not know if the relative advantage of humans relative to computers is mainly better static evaluation or knowledge which lines to search. Uri
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