# Thanks For Ruining Another Game Forever, Computers - Host: [blog.codinghorror.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/blog.codinghorror.com/) - Saved: March 25, 2016 (2016-03-25T23:41:25Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/81da6d5d9e00/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/81da6d5d9e00.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) In the space of just 20 years, computers went from barely beating the best humans at Chess, with a problem space of 1050, to definitively beating the best humans at Go, with a problem space of 10170. How did this happen? ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Getting the Most Out of PNG](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/14cb697f8852/) (blog.codinghorror.com, December 18, 2015) - [Is Your Computer Stable?](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e8e803b9e32d/) (blog.codinghorror.com, February 25, 2016) - [We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9e281d9a7803/) (blog.codinghorror.com, March 4, 2016) - [Your Digital Pinball Machine](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a3d7cccefd23/) (blog.codinghorror.com, November 3, 2016) - [The Existential Terror of Battle Royale —Coding Horror](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/91532556bee3/) (blog.codinghorror.com, November 5, 2017) ## Saved the same week - [TripMode](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8f42ab3c99bd/) (tripmode.ch, March 23, 2016) - [How Jeff Bezos Became a Power Beyond Amazon - Fortune](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b11c966eda80/) (fortune.com, March 24, 2016) - [Inside Tony Fadell’s Struggle to Build Nest](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/88cb8e109e1a/) (theinformation.com, March 25, 2016) - [Derek Sivers Interviews](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1dbbf3f80a87/) (sivers.org, March 27, 2016) - [BBC - Future - These unlucky people have names that break computers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0608012bc268/) (bbc.com, March 27, 2016) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://blog.codinghorror.com/thanks-for-ruining-another-game-forever-computers/