[computer-go] didn't Samuels solve that game thirty years ago?

[Raymond Wold]

terry mcintyre wrote:

>An interesting recap of how the hype can sometimes far outpace the reality:
>
> http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/project/legacy.html
>  
>
I liked this quote from Robert Nealey, which I think is applicable to go 
as well;
By sticking to its programmed instructions, it may find an extraordinary 
move that a man who is gifted imaginatively may never find. It knows so 
much and carries its analysis to such depths that it sometimes, by the 
beauty of its mathematics, comes up with a truly brilliant move. This is 
difficult to express, but I think the machine’s complete lack of 
imagination is its most formidable strength!