[computer-go] Re: The global search myth

[Jacques Basaldúa]

Dave Dyer wrote:

> In cases where the good moves are the "obvious" ones, 
> you've found them anyway.  

Ok. Here I agree.

> In other cases, you prune them away.   

You are not really pruning, just postponing. Of course
you may overlook moves of genius, who doesn't? But
if your probabilities are correct you may be emulating
what a human does.

> You DO get wrong answers much faster this way though.

Why? I don't see why. I see this order as the most 
human like way of searching. As any incomplete search,
it can blunder, but why more than any other incomplete 
search?


Jacques.