[computer-go] Big board, ++physics

[Don Dailey]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:17 +0900, igo wrote:
> > Making the board bigger would probably make the game weaker for humans. 
> > I presume the day a computer is world champion, 
> > increasing board size would give the computer even more advantage. 
> > (Againstthe common search-width based intuition.)
>  
> I presume exact the opposite way. 
> 
> The day a computer is world champion at 19x19, 
> increasing boardsize would give human advantage. 
> because computer has mechanical power, but human has wisdom.

This is a tricky question.   My guess is that if computers ever do get
to this point in GO, they will have the advantage in bigger boards too,
but this is just a hypothesis.    I agree that in practice it's the
other way around so you might easily be correct.

- Don


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