Just as fair as a running match between an athlete on foor and another one on a motorcycle. (Or say: on rollers...)
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:29 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 5:48 PM, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> what I would call "FAIR" in the GO-game would be to allow the human(s) >> the use of the (partner) computer's database and computing wisdom in their >> game to make them equal. >> > > Don't be a sour loser! The computer found its own wisdom you need to do > the same. Both the human and the machine were allowed to memorize anything > they wanted, and if the human player had in addition wanted to to bring > along "GO For Dummies" or any other book about how to play the game I doubt > anybody would object. > > Raw databases of old games are available to anyone but by themselves are > of no help because you're never going to see the same game twice, there are > just too many moves. Instead the old games must be analyzed to tease out > strategies that are good given the circumstances. And face it, computer was > better than the human at doing that. > > John K Clark > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

