Re: computer-go: Evaluating positions

[Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20010620093518.B29699@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Heikki Levanto
<heikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>Although I agree that in practice, with mere humans (or worse, computers)
>playing, there indeed is a difference, I am not sure if this holds to
>perfect players.
>
>This is because we less-than-perfect players can not read things to the end,
>but have to make do with approximations, probabilities, and errors, which in
>the strictest mathematical sense do not belong in go, except in practice.

With perfect players, a game of Go goes like this:

  "What's the komi?"
  "Six and a half."
  "Then black wins, ok?"
  "Sure.  Let's go out for a pint."

This is not very helpful.

Nick
-- 
Nick Wedd