Here's the article about Go and computer.
[H1]Computers just can't seem to get past Go[/H1]
[FONT face=arial,helvetica,sans-serif size=3]Chess is a doddle compared to this ancient oriental game of strategy that has programmers and scientists scratching their heads, writes Charles Arthur[/FONT]
[FONT face=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif size=2]Thursday August 3, 2006
[A href="vny!://www.guardian.co.uk/"][FONT color=#436a90]The Guardian[/FONT][/A]
[/FONT] [DIV id=GuardianArticleBody]When Garry Kasparov was beaten, to his furious humiliation, by IBM's Deep Blue chess computer in 1997, it left human players pondering their future. Draughts, Othello, backgammon, Scrabble: by the start of this century, each had been all but conquered by machines. But don't worry. Almost a decade later, with Moore's Law still at work, there is still a board game in which humans reign supreme. The game is Go, an oriental game of strategy. It sounds superficially easy. The board is a 19 by 19 grid of intersecting lines. The pieces (called "stones") are black or white, and identical. Once placed on the board, they do not move (unless surrounded and captured) or change colour. The object is to use one's stones to surround as many blank intersections (called "territory") as possible. And that's about it.
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