Re: [computer-go] Modern brute force search

[Tom Cooper <t.cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 00:33 08/11/2004, Don wrote:


> It sounds like GO isn't as complicated as I thought it was, due to the
> fact that many of you believe masters are pretty close to optimal play.
3-5 stones might not sound like very much, but the scale appears to be
logarithmic.  For each stone you improve, the next is harder.  By the
time you get to professional level, it requires a very large increase in
knowledge etc. (ie mastery of much more complication) to improve by one stone.

I think professionals may have some understanding of how much weaker than
a perfect player they are.  Although I don't suppose they understand what
is involved in being a able to play even one stone stronger than top pros,
there is some certain knowledge in go.  Even I can sometimes see that I
can get at least X points in the lower left against perfect play.  A pro
would be much much more able to realize that he can score X points here and
Y there etc., even against perfect play.

On an empty board, I can't see that I can get any points against perfect play,
and maybe I couldn't.  There is no reason to think this would be true of a
pro though. 
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