This is a remarkable result. I think poker is more difficult than Go and of
course chess. My hypothesis (its just a hypothesis) for the success is.
There is someone - Dave Billings - who worked for many years very
consequently on the topic. And he is able to motivate a lot of other good
people to go along with him. And he gets probably also a lot of support from
his boss, J.Schaeffer. And of course, there is some prospect to win fame and
money.
The conditions for solving a problem are always at least as important than
the problem itself. Maybe are the conditions in Poker better than in Go. As
said above, I think the problem is in Poker harder. They have of course not
solved the whole problem. Heads-Up limit Hold'Em is the - for computers -
easiest game. But its nevertheless remarkable that they are on-par with the
Poker-GMs.
Chrilly
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