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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9109329" data-attributes="member: 82106">You're asserting that I said things I never said. Believe me, I could go chapter and verse with you on the mathematical aspect of complexity, and I never ever in a billion years stated that Chess is more complex than Go, nor consequently given some sort of explanation of it as you are imputing. In fact I'm pretty sure, without dredging back through every post I have made in the past 2 days, that I stated that Go is more complex than Chess. At the very least I said something about them both being in a more complex category than certain other games (Checkers being one IIRC). Whatever horse you are beating, it isn't even in this race! However, I disagree with you as to what we look at when we refer to complexity. We look at the totality of possibilities when discussing board games, and then maybe in more detail at how different positions can be represented in slightly more abstract ways (IE Go contains a large number of what are recognized by analysts as functionally equivalent situations which all resolve down to the same sort of outcome if played through). When discussing RPGs, which are 'open games' (in all non-trivial cases certainly) the criteria must be more in terms of 'rules complexity' as there is no enumerable set of board positions to compare. Etc. I can hash all this out as much as you want, and write you a book on game theory and complexity theory if you want, but the point stands, whatever you are imputing to me as simplistic wrong-headed answers, I am not giving them!</blockquote>

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