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Subject: Re: Computer Go Report

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 12:05:08 09/14/05

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On September 14, 2005 at 12:21:39, TEERAPONG TOVIRAT wrote:

>
>Peter,
>
>>
>>It may be true that Go is more positional and less tactical than Chess but that
>>is hard to quantify.
>
>I'm curious to figure out this. I give 80:20 for chess because most of the games
>of under 2400 in chess Olympiad lose by tactical combination. For an expert in

Just because the end of a game is a tactical combination doesn't mean the game
was lost *because* of tactics.  Often the combination comes about because of
positional superiority or positional pressure at least.

>Go how often he loses by tactical combination? Could it be up to 10%?

I don't know.

>
>Regards,
>Teerapong



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