Tuesday 27 May 2014

The Mystery Of Go, The Game That Computers Still Can't Win

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Go is a board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,500 years ago. The game is rich in strategy despite its relatively simple rules. No machine has ever beaten a top human Go player - at least not without a huge head-start. Computers match or surpass top humans in chess, Othello, Scrabble, backgammon, poker, even Jeopardy. But not Go.

In 1994, machines took the checkers crown, when a program called Chinook beat the top human. Then, three years later, they topped the chess world, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer besting world champion Garry Kasparov.

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