hmm, gmail decided to send this message while I was still typing it:( > I made that statement about the number of digits exceeding the number > of chess games > in an interview with Peter Shotwell, but I was wrong. > > I went a little overboard in trying to show that the gap in number of > games between go and chess > is so much larger than the gap in number of positions. > > With both Go and chess, the number of games is exponential in the > length of the longest > possible game. But whereas in Go, this length is itself exponentially > large (over 10^48), > in chess it is only around 6000, due to the 50-move rule. > > So there is an exponential gap in the number of games. > > It would have been correct
to say that the number of digits in the number of go games exceeds the number of chess positions. regards, -John _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
