Re: computer-go: A problem with understanding lookahead

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Vincent Diepeveen <diep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: computer-go: A problem with understanding lookahead


> A queen is 10 points worth in beginners terms.
>
> That's nearly half of all your pieces.
>
> In go terms that's equal to start with 150 stones up.
>

This comparison is highly incorrect of course. A nine-stone handicap is
considered to be worth 140 points, or almost half the board. That seems a
much more reasonable comparison to the value of a queen in Chess. You seem
to forget that in Go, the 'points' are the empty spaces, not the occupied
ones.