I appreciate your response. Mathematical solutions are certainly a good possibility to reduce the amount of processing power needed. However, a person would not be able to solve 19x19 because a person lacks the necessary computational resources to form a solution in any reasonable amount of time. A computer would therefore have to solve go. I think this is as close to a possibility as we can get, but it isn't enough to solve go. And if somehow it ever is, make the board bigger... But, as I said, I think your comment is a good one and suggests a strategy for computer go that I think could be highly fruitful and I have been exploring.
- Nick On 1/12/07, Vlad Dumitrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, On 1/12/07, Nick Apperson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, there are upper limits placed on computation rate by thermodynamics. > 19x19 is way beyond those as Dave pointed out. But, even if you believe > that technology will improve and the most revolutionary change yet will come > to understanding of physics and that change will give us signifigantly more > computational power and time etc... You can always make a bigger board. If > life comes to a point where go could be solved for any size board, you will > no longer be in this world and solving things such as "is go solvable?" will > have no meaning. Well, if I may be excused for being way too pedantic on this topic, raw computing power isn't the only way. Mathematical solutions might easily reduce the search space just enough to allow a full search of what's left of it. On the other hand, I'm not worried. There will always be challenging games to play and to try to master. best regards, Vlad _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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