Re: [computer-go] citation

[Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxx>]

Amanda, 

This may not be exactly what you were looking for,  but I found this:

   Finally, there is  this perhaps most cogent comment  on the comparison
   between Chess and Go that appeared in an article in The New York Times
   Metro Section  of Thursday February 6, 2003  entitled "Queen, Captured
   by Mouse", which  focused on the then ongoing  tied match between Gary
   Kasparov and the Israeli Chess  software program "Deep Junior". In it,
   Dr. Hans Berliner, a  leading Chessmaster, former World Correspondence
   Chess  Champion,  Professor of  Computer  Science  at Carnegie  Mellon
   University,  and  one  of  those  whose  work  on  chess  led  to  the
   development of  IBM's Deep Blue  and its descendants said:  "You don't
   have to be  really good anymore to get good  results. Chess is winding
   down.....What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its
   place  as  the  par  excellence  of  intellectual  activity".  And  he
   concluded: "Smart people  in search of a challenging  board game might
   try a game called Go..."


The part  about his work  leading to the  development of Deep  Blue is
correct, but he was not personally involved in the development of Deep
Blue,  which is  often believed.   Berliner is  a very  well respected
authority on computer games and has done research on many of them.  He
is a giant in Computer Chess.


- Don
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