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>What makes GO so much harder than chess is how hard it is to evaluate the board. And the 300-fold increase in branching factor.
by daveguy 11y ago
>What makes GO so much harder than chess is how hard it is to evaluate the board.
And the 300-fold increase in branching factor.
- Retric 11y agoFirst order branching factor is less important than you might think. You could setup a game of Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim with much higher branching factor vs Go, but because you can trivially separate a winning moves vs. losing moves those branches become irrelevant in Nim. AKA, if there are 2,000 winning moves then they are all equivalent.