<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:50 PM Dylan Distasio <<a href="mailto:interzone@gmail.com">interzone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The number of possible moves in chess quickly scales after a few moves to truly ridiculous numbers so we may be waiting awhile. I've heard 10^120 bandied about which may be the high end up of estimates but even if it's somewhat less, it remains an enormous amount. GO is even worse. </i><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4">There are 10^172 </font></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> </span><font face="sans-serif">possible board positions in GO, that's 10 million billion billion billion billion billion times more than Chess. There are only 10^80 atoms in the observable universe so no computer is ever going to play GO at a superhuman level by brute force calculating every possibility, it's going to need to be clever. And they are clever because today computers can play GO at a superhuman level.</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><font face="sans-serif">John K Clark</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><br>
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