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Interesting article, but I have to disagree with the Chess - Go analogy. Pieces in chess do not have a fixed point value. "Knights are worth 3 points" is merely
by SubiculumCode 5y ago
Interesting article, but I have to disagree with the Chess - Go analogy. Pieces in chess do not have a fixed point value. "Knights are worth 3 points" is merely a heuristic that can be moderately useful in an initial assessment of a position...but anyone that plays chess knows that the NETWORK matters. A queen on the wrong side of the board is worth less than a pawn about to promote near the enemy's king; three coordinated pieces are worth more valuable than four isolated pieces.
- pwinnski 5y agoI'm not actually sure this makes the metaphor less applicable. Network and position matter for both, but the point values in Chess serve to describe the relative value of each piece in addition to that, while the lack of differentiation between pieces in Go means that even more attention must be paid to the network and positions. It is not that network or position don't matter in Chess, but that only network and position matter in Go.