[computer-go] Search = Bad!

["Frank de Groot" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Evaluation function & pruning is a pretty inefficient way of getting
somewhere. It's like a guy lost in the jungle without a compass or GPS. He
is trying to find an open spot in the jungle a mile away by looking at the
trees around him. When the trees look slightly "open-spottish-like", he
takes that direction.
Well that is silly. He'd better had taken a bearing beforehand and use a
compass!

Pretty trivial if you ask me.
I don't understand why people still want to use search in comp. Go.
I think after decades of trying it's pretty obvious that it doesn't work.

(patterns won't work either, they help search but search doesn't work :-)

The intention is to provoke interesting brainstorming on alternatives to
search! (I mean radical alternatives that are completely novel, so no
patterns, no pruning, no evaluation functions, no domain-specific knowledge
and no tree search of any kind, neither neural networks, fuzzy logic or
genetic algorithms).

I have an idea but it needs some more brainstorming.
My idea, I already explained it in the first paragraph. I am naked before
you and hope you won't betray my trust :)

Thanks in advance for your replies.

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