[computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

[Nick Apperson]

I appreciate your response.  Mathematical solutions are certainly a good
possibility to reduce the amount of processing power needed.  However, a
person would not be able to solve 19x19 because a person lacks the necessary
computational resources to form a solution in any reasonable amount of
time.  A computer would therefore have to solve go.  I think this is as
close to a possibility as we can get, but it isn't enough to solve go.  And
if somehow it ever is, make the board bigger...  But, as I said, I think
your comment is a good one and suggests a strategy for computer go that I
think could be highly fruitful and I have been exploring.

- Nick

On 1/12/07, Vlad Dumitrescu <vladdu55 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 1/12/07, Nick Apperson <apperson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > yeah, there are upper limits placed on computation rate by
> thermodynamics.
> > 19x19 is way beyond those as Dave pointed out.  But, even if you believe
> > that technology will improve and the most revolutionary change yet will
> come
> > to understanding of physics and that change will give us signifigantly
> more
> > computational power and time etc...  You can always make a bigger
> board.  If
> > life comes to a point where go could be solved for any size board, you
> will
> > no longer be in this world and solving things such as "is go solvable?"
> will
> > have no meaning.
>
> Well, if I may be excused for being way too pedantic on this topic,
> raw computing power isn't the only way. Mathematical solutions might
> easily reduce the search space just enough to allow a full search of
> what's left of it.
>
> On the other hand, I'm not worried. There will always be challenging
> games to play and to try to master.
>
> best regards,
> Vlad
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