Re: [computer-go] Learning : was Chess programs versus go programs

[Matt Gokey <mgokey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A van Kessel wrote:
> > Perhaps you could enlighten us all?
> I Hope I can. I will.
> David is a very clever man who worked on his program for approx
> 20 years. (not constantly, I know ...)
I respect the time and contributions David has made to computer go.

> He has thought an written extensively about it,
> and from what I recall from it, he has considered
> every possibility for improvement.
Well I guess there is nothing else anyone can do then...

> If you read the discussions about alpha/beta+evaluationfunction
> (beeing the wrong way) , you can know (IMHO) why David made
> the choices he made.
If you read and understood the thread of posts that lead to this or even 
the short description in the latest post you would know we're not 
talking about the standard A/B search algorithm applied in the textbook 
way to go moves.

> BTW: the A/B+eval discussion has been here forevere,
> and is re-ignited every time new (chess-?) programmers
> enter the scene, so it seems.
I'm not new to this list or computer-go and I'm not a chess programmer.

Regards, Matt
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