Don Dailey wrote: > Much the same as in GO, where 10 -15 years ago the idea of Dan level > play was so far off it was considered completely unattainable by > pessimists, and even optimists viewed it as a century away.
Where did you get that impression? I've recently spent some time reading the archives of (the predecessors of) this mailing list from the mid-90s, and my impression is very different. I'd say the optimists were predicting 1 dan (AGA) in 10 years, and the pessimists were saying rather longer. This quote from a prominent list member in 1996 is not untypical: << I'm not saying that you can get to shodan just by taking today's programs and running them on a machine 100 times faster. I'm saying that a 100 times faster machine is needed to run the new algorithms that will be developed for a shodan strength program. >> -M- _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
