On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
one player's position -- or one of those distant pieces placed early in
the game -- causes their entire effort to "unravel" and turn into a
disaster. That's almost twice the number of plys in an entire chess
game, and is still only the first third or so of the game.
See above for correct calculation.
If you or your friend disagree with this, well, feel free to edit the
wikipedia article(s) with examples that contradict it, but the
mathematics and difficulty of pruning the Go trees suggest that it
isn't.
See above for disproof of that.
Very educational and interesting. But I was also serious -- if you can
(and it sounds like you can) you should consider editing the wikipedia
articles.
I'm not COMPLETELY convinced -- I'll be a lot more convinced when I can
get a GPL Go engine that will play a decent game on my laptop...;-)
rgb
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