Re: computer-go: Go Devil

[Ray Tayek <rtayek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:37 PM 9/22/2000 -0400, you wrote:

> In my personal opinion, the estimate  that the best humans are about 1
> or 2 stones from perfect Go play is way off the mark.
you may be mixing apples and oranges here. perfect play can not beat a 9
stone handicap on a 9x9 board. nor can it beat a 13 stone handicap on a
19x19 board against a dan level player. the best humans probably can not be
beat by some small number of stones against perfect play on a 19x19 board.
but imagine a 1000x1000 board.
but we may have no idea what perfect play is. we might be able to solve a
9x9 some day, but the moves may make little or no sense to us. this would
tend to be more true on a 19x19 or larger board.
hth

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