http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=33 Sat, 02 May 2026 02:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=33#comment-9468 Nature of Man » A Rhapsody in Deep Blue Fri, 11 May 2007 10:50:49 +0000 http://mordred.niama.net/blog/?p=33#comment-9468 [...] (Btw a variant of Mancala has been solved as well). Note that chess is not actually solved in the sense that a winning strategy is known for all situations, it’s just that computers are better than human players. The skill of the current computer Go opponents, on the other hand, places them in the middle of the amateur kyu range, which is way too far from even the amateur dans, let alone the pros (the rating scale is not linear in nature; moving from 6th dan to 7th dan is much harder than moving from 1st dan to 2nd dan). [...] […] (Btw a variant of Mancala has been solved as well). Note that chess is not actually solved in the sense that a winning strategy is known for all situations, it’s just that computers are better than human players. The skill of the current computer Go opponents, on the other hand, places them in the middle of the amateur kyu range, which is way too far from even the amateur dans, let alone the pros (the rating scale is not linear in nature; moving from 6th dan to 7th dan is much harder than moving from 1st dan to 2nd dan). […]

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