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From: wolf@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Mike Wolf,4264777)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: There are no good computer GO players
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Date: 25 Jan 88 02:03:09 GMT
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In article <6250@cc5.bbn.COM> denbeste@bbn.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes:
>There does not exist a good computer GO player that I have heard of, on any
>machine up to and including a Cray. The reason is that all the approaches which
>have been developed over the years for Chess (mostly at CDC to try to win the
>Levy bet - which they failed) don't work well for GO.
>
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>Steven C. Den Beste,   Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge MA
>denbeste@bbn.com(ARPA/CSNET/UUCP)    harvard!bbn.com!denbeste(UUCP)

Actually, there are quite a few GO programs which play competitivly
at the amature level.  I don't remember the terminology very well,
but I seem to recall that the recent winner of the world computer
go tourny was at the 18 kyu level.  I think a high number is better,
but I could be wrong.

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