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From: g2jdr@cdf.toronto.edu (Rootham James Douglas)
Subject: Re: State enumeration
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In article <D74xrx.Hqp@mv.mv.com>, Steven J. Edwards <sje@mv.mv.com> wrote:
>g2jdr@cdf.toronto.edu (Rootham James Douglas) writes:
>
>>In article <D731tB.J4D@mv.mv.com>, Steven J. Edwards <sje@mv.mv.com> wrote:
>
>>>I measure game complexity based on a game's influence and perfusion
>>>through human culture and by the amount of interest it stimulates in
>>>the research community over time.
>
>There are more books in print on chess than any other game.  This is
>true today and has been true since the second book ever mass produced
>by movable type: _The Game and Play of Chess_.
>

Is there any chess related literature at the level of "The Master of
Go" by Yasunara Kawabata?  I don't know of any.  The volume of books
is a bit Eurocentric as a measure of cultural interest.

>>Go contains everything that you say chess has and go does not.  If you
>>don't think so I must simply assume that you don't know enough about
>>go to be competent to comment on the game.
>

>Oh, and your assumption is simple indeed; I first played go 22 years
>ago, I have several sets at home along with copies of a number of go
>books and computer go research papers.  I did the first port of gnugo
>to the Macintosh years ago and have also done some original go
>programming.  I think I have given it a fair chance, and I stand by my
>earlier evaluation that go is just not in the same league as chess.
>

If you know this much about go why did you make the statements you
did?  Clearly there are as many surprises in go as there are in chess.

Jim Rootham
g2jdr@cdf.utoronto.ca





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