On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:17 +0900, igo wrote: > > Making the board bigger would probably make the game weaker for humans. > > I presume the day a computer is world champion, > > increasing board size would give the computer even more advantage. > > (Againstthe common search-width based intuition.) > > I presume exact the opposite way. > > The day a computer is world champion at 19x19, > increasing boardsize would give human advantage. > because computer has mechanical power, but human has wisdom.
This is a tricky question. My guess is that if computers ever do get to this point in GO, they will have the advantage in bigger boards too, but this is just a hypothesis. I agree that in practice it's the other way around so you might easily be correct. - Don > igo > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
