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To: Don Potenza who wrote (30900)3/7/1998 8:48:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson   of 35569
 
Don, The computers lack any real strategic sense. They are massively parallel engines, with some pattern smarts, able to look down causal trees to great depth if they narrow their search pattern. A human recognizes patterns and uses strategy. The best strategy is to work beyond the machines average look depth at one point. If the machine looks 7 ahead all over, and then looks 20 ahead along one string, and then puts that string into action, the master finds a trap that is more than 7 moves out and is irrevocable by the time the machine sees it at 7. As the machines get better their overall view extends furher that the 7 (i just picked that value arbitrarily) then the human needs to work further out. The problem is once you work further out and the machine can solve for all moves there are fewer and fewer irrevocable traps, and we are reduced to systematic machine play and a draw, or error.
Ultimately the machines will grind men down and in a few years will win all matches. Go is different, it is an oriental game with incalculable variety, and yet simple moves. The best Go computers can be beaten by any good child. The tree grows even faster than with chess. D a search on Go, it is fascinating.

Bill

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