computer-go: BIG IDEA

[Stuart Cracraft <cracraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If David Fotland's experience with MANY FACES OF GO, or that
of other programmers of other programs, is of any significance, 
then waiting for the one BIG IDEA will fail.

Computer Go and Computer Chess have historically shown
that progress is achieved through small increments with
occasional moderate leaps but no one BIG IDEA 
predominates.

Suggest we all stop pinning our hopes on pine in the
sky and accept the future of Go: slow, methodical progress
with a number of stalls, fits and starts, and an occasional
good contribution.

How many PhD's in Computer Go? Thousands?