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Comparison Between Chess And Go
- valarauca1 12y agoIts not that their is an apparently 'difficulty' in chess or go. The difference is thinking about the game. Chess is largely tactical game. Move A will lead to Move B,C,D which can be countered by Move E,F,G,H which all lead to position XYZ. High level chess players do a literal position search when determining a move. "How does the board look now, how will look after this exchange." Go isn't purely tactical. Go is strategic. The old saying in Go is, "Chess is a battle, Go is a war." This is very true. At any given time in go there can be 4-7 different 'fights' taking place. How players value these fights, and fight these battles determines the game. Winning one battle, may weaken you in another. The real problem is Go is its a difficult to quantize game. The measure of Aji (unsettledness) and Influence of a group of stones doesn't have a metric. I've spoken with Dan (master) ranked players trying to improve my play, and I often hear Aji and Influence cited as feelings, you feel the aji of a group of stones, one glance will instantly tell how unsettled they are. And you truely do. The problem is programming languages doesn't do 'feelings' well. And really nobody has given a better explanation. I feel it has to do with how the human brain remembers and picks out patterns.