PLAYING GAMES ON COMPUTERS

Computers have had the  to play chess for many years now,

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and their  in games against the best players in the world has

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shown steady . However, it will be years before the designers

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of computer games machines can beat their  challenge yet –

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the ancient board game called Go. The playing area is  larger

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than in chess, there are more pieces, and the of moves is

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almost . The game involves planning so many moves ahead

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that even the  calculations of the fastest modern computers

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are  to deal with the many problems of the game. In a recent

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 for computer Go machines, the best machine beat all its

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computer rivals, but lost to three young schoolchildren, so

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there is obviously still a lot of work to do !!