Hi, Anyone knows about the chinese game called "go"?
I read once in a magazine that a rich man in Asia is willing to pay 1 million dollars to the one who builds a program that wins against the best GO players. What I really like from that game is that it looks very simple (the rules are extremely simple!) but thinking of a move gets very complex. Maybe it's already done, I don't know... What do you think, Alan? Cheers, Pablo > Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 9:33:16 PM, Kevin Copple wrote: > > KC> I spent a few minutes looking at the CalTech Turing Tournament website > KC> http://turing.ssel.caltech.edu/index.html I came away rather puzzled. This > KC> seems to be a number guessing game. Sure, it includes both emulator and > KC> detector algorithms, but such a specialized domain seems less interesting > KC> than algorithms that play chess, bridge, go, or whatever. > > I was pretty puzzled at the game they proposed as well. > > However, the games you recommend probably are too large and complex to > build such a tournament around, especially when including detectors. > > Without actually sitting down and playing through the proposed game a > number of times, it's difficult for me to see how exactly it would > work...maybe the point is to detect how humans learn the game, but in > that case a playing program could be written to slowly converge on a > good strategy. But with those kind of "meta-strategies" involved, the > small details (how much knowledge will the human players have of the > game? do they get to practice? how are they selected -- random > students? etc.) get to be critically important, and the end result > seems like it would be a crapshoot. > > In principle the idea of building imitators and detectors and setting > them against each other *sounds* neat, but when you get down to > specifics things become muddled, at least for me. It might make more > sense as two separate tournaments. > > -- > Cliff > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Registre su dominio. El primer paso de un proyecto exitoso en Internet. http://www.montevideo.net.uy/hnnoticiaj1.exe?9,0 ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
