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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Gomoku: a strategic board game for GNU Emacs.
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 10:26:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 10:26:56 1987
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jat@hpsemc.UUCP (Joe Talmadge) writes:
> Speaking of Gomuku (and not at all of emacs, oh well), does anyone
> know anything about a computerized Go game, like the computerized
> chess games?  Or is Go not widely played enough, or too complicated?

From what I've heard, the number of potential moves from any position
in Go is so large that tree searching doesn't work.  Thus, there's
never been a good Go program.  (But the Japanese are working on it as
an AI project.)  Oddly enough, good computer chess programs all use
tree searching, but good human chess players don't.

Dale