Re: computer-go: FPGA

["Vlad Dumitrescu" <vladdu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Moreover, such an intelligent program should
> >be definitely faster than a brute-force one (on the same hardware) - and
> >thus better!
 
> The conclusion sounds weird to me: why would something more selective
> be faster? For brute force you don't lose speed. You do everything.
> When being selective
>   a) you lose speed to the selection
>   b) smaller branching factor ==> more speed loss (partly result of a)

Well, what I had in mind when saying that is that a brute-force approach must go both deep and wide in order to play well. A really smart program that might for example think like a human, won't have to deal with the same amount of calculations, thus becoming faster. Maybe (notice I said "should be faster")

Vlad