Re: computer-go: A problem with understanding lookahead

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: computer-go: A problem with understanding lookahead


>
> You obviously are not familiar  with the computer chess world, because
> "counting  material" is a  horrible evaluation  function and  does not
> lead to "sophisticated positional judgement" in modern programs

The qualification of 'horrible' is rather relative of course. There's no Go
program that has an evaluation that comes even close to the precision of
counting material in Chess, and I don't think there will be for quite some
time.

    Mark