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From: sje@mv.mv.com (Steven J. Edwards)
Subject: Re: State enumeration
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g2jdr@cdf.toronto.edu (Rootham James Douglas) writes:

>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.

>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.

Perhaps.  But so is the volume of computers as well, and so go
programs would've made similar inroads.  Yet the number of go programs
today is probably less than the number of chess programs twenty five
years ago.

There may even be more awari programs than go programs, and that game
comes from Africa, which cannot compare with Japan for computers or
programmers.

>>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?

Because I had given chess an equal amount of consideration before
making a judgement of the relative merits.

-- Steven (sje@mv.mv.com)

