www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZhNB17bkc
This video frustrated me a lot. Go is not a more complicated game than chess. The fact that it is fundamentally so much simpler, is the reason why it must played on such a massive board (19x19). When checkers started dying because people began to solve it, they moved to bigger boards, just like what is done in go. If you played Go on an 8x8 board it would be far closer to checkers than chess in complexity. Chess, even if adapted somehow, could never be played on anything close to a 19x19 board. It would just be way too complicated and chaotic to even begin to play.
Also saying that chess was solved 20 years ago while Go still can't be beaten by a computer is a retarded argument. All of these types of developments come out of the western world where Go is played by virtually no one, and is a far far less popular game globally. Point being that far less effort has been put into solving go than chess, and thats the only reason it took longer to solve.
This video frustrated me a lot. Go is not a more complicated game than chess. The fact that it is fundamentally so much simpler, is the reason why it must played on such a massive board (19x19). When checkers started dying because people began to solve it, they moved to bigger boards, just like what is done in go. If you played Go on an 8x8 board it would be far closer to checkers than chess in complexity. Chess, even if adapted somehow, could never be played on anything close to a 19x19 board. It would just be way too complicated and chaotic to even begin to play.
Also saying that chess was solved 20 years ago while Go still can't be beaten by a computer is a retarded argument. All of these types of developments come out of the western world where Go is played by virtually no one, and is a far far less popular game globally. Point being that far less effort has been put into solving go than chess, and thats the only reason it took longer to solve.