On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Neil Fernandez wrote:

How would people rate the relative strengths of the best programs at
chess, Chinese chess, and go?

I realise that it's not a straightforward task to find a basis for
comparison (including because the processing power made available to
chess programs when playing Kramnik and Kasparov has not [?] been made
available to Chinese chess and go programs), but I'd be interested in
what people think :-)

Hi Neil,

The algorithms for playing chess are more straightforward than any
developed so far for Go. Go is also much bigger in terms of possible
moves, significance of positions, etc. Chess programs have evolved to
the point where the possibilities can be looked up and number crunched
to the level of a grandmaster.

Go isn't anywhere near that stage and all programs developed so far play
at a relatively 'experienced beginner' level. It's not for lack of
processing grunt, it's down to Go needing human intelligence and
intuition to play well.

You might find this site interesting

http://www.intelligentgo.org/en/comp.../overview.html

--
Chris