> This is WAY MORE than just alpha/beta and counting pieces. > Keep in mind what the original question was about -- why is one so much further along strength-wise than the other, or what it is that makes the two games different from a machine-attacking point of view.
Sure, chess programs will continue to be developed, but the time when non-grandmasters could have a reasonable chance of beating even an open-source program from a few years ago has long since passed. It's arguable that the time when grandmasters could have a reasonable chance has long since passed as well, but that's not required for this point. The point is that go programs are not at this same level, and that the chess approach does not work on a go board with go stones and the rules of go, and that as far as the current approaches are concerned, go appears to be a "harder" game. Nobody doubts that chess improvements happen every day, but they certainly aren't required to continually crush humans at chess. s.
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