Re: computer-go: new strategy game with $10,000 prize

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I played a couple of games today with my son and it is a little
trickier than it seemed at first, but the moves tend to all revolve around
some local threat for many moves in a row, so reasonable move pruning should
be possible.

David

At 11:21 PM 1/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:

> I took  a look at this.   I'm not sure  it's as complex as  he claims.
> Even though the legal move count  at any given node is quite high, the
> game is very  threat oriented (tactical).  Also, for  what it's worth,
> there have not been hundreds of  years of human experience at the game
> which should help some!
>
> So if a program can be designed that is very good at seeing short term
> tactics, it might be very hard for a human to beat.
>
> $10,000 isn't worth the effort  by itself, but it seems like something
> that would certainly be worth the fun of trying.
>
>
> Don
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>    http://arimaa.com/arimaa/
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>    He thinks his game is 100x more complex than go, and offers $10,000 for a
>    program
>    that can beat a human by 2020, with $1000 for the best program at the end
>    of 2003.
>
>    I think this prize can be won this year, but I don't have time to work 
> on it :(
>
>    Any takers?
>
>    David