I agree with you. Our brains are wired to play go better than chess. Don
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Michael Williams < [email protected]> wrote: > One thing that never seems to get mentioned in this periodic debate is the > relationship, within the brain, of sight, patterns and memory. A go board > looks very similar 10 or even 20 moves in the future. The same is not true > for chess. It looks vastly different, and in many cases would be over by > that time. I postulate that humans are able to read more situations more > deeply in Go than Chess because of the fact that much of the board is > unchanged, visually and therefor easier to remember. In chess, things move > around and become harder to remember. Computers have excellent memories and > don't care about how things "look". This gives them an advantage over > humans in games that are visually "fast". See also: reversi/othello. I'm > sure there are counter-examples. It's just something else to consider. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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