[computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-12 Thread Mehdi Ahmadi
Hello & thank in advance for any interests/ responses. I'm unfortunately (or not) doing a dissertation as part of my final year project (undergraduate) on the game of Go. The exact title is: "Can the game of go be solved? Analysis of computational methodologies for go." And I have included my over

[computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-12 Thread Mehdi Ahmadi
Thank your for your response, Chris. I think as Allis et al (1991, 1994) points out there is a difference in 'crackable' and 'solvable' where the former tend to be search-based complexities and the later decision-based complexity. Irrespective of the opponent via the cracking approach the best the

[computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-14 Thread Mehdi Ahmadi
I just wanted to thank everyone - so far - for their responses/ help & biblio's... even though some responses sling off topic... and also to add my 2-cent. Although I am very new to the world of Go... and my understanding very limited - I would like to believe that there are hidden solutions [m