Re: computer-go: perfect play

["Vlad Dumitrescu" <vladdu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>        >In chess you can go beyond that. It has happened that Kasparov had
>    prepared games up to 30 moves deep.
>        >He's not doing that on his own. He has a whole team to do it with him.
> 
>    Does that say anything about Kasparov's strength? <snip>
>    ---------
> 
> Actually, Vincent is right (for a change  :-) Teams of grandmasters do
> work with the very best players,  especially the world champion.  They
> try to find what  is call "TN's" or  "theoretical novelties", holes or
> missing analysis in current theory.  Also, they can go very deep, even
> into the endgame as Vincent says.

I didn't say he isn't right, but that it wasn't a good argument for showing off with Kasparov's strength!

Doing some lateral thinking, it seems that humans tend to play more like GoDevil (or ChessDevil), because we are preparing especially for the opponent, trying to find his or hers weak spots and so on... :-)

/Vlad