Re: computer-go: Two ways to program a GO-engine

[Nick Wedd <Nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>As for the latest discussion, we all know it's not practical to clap your
>hands, say some magic words and get the perfect player. Should we ever come
>close to it, it will be the hard way, with sweat, tears and effort.

Do we know that?  How do we know that?

Suppose no-one had come up with the trick for winning at Nim.  You can
imagine Nim programs that use tree searches, heuristics, detailed end-
game analysis.  Then one day someone claps their hands and comes up with
the trick about expressing the numbers in binary etc.

I accept that something like this is improbable in Go.  But I don't know
that it won't happen.

Nick
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