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Subject: Re: Question for chess programmers: Go

Author: Colin Frayn

Date: 08:14:10 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 11:06:12, Edward Seid wrote:

>Have you ever tried programming a Go engine?  Or do you even have an interest or
>understanding of the game of Go?

Yes and yes.  Go is a fascinating game, and I must admit I actually prefer it to
chess (heretic!).  It is, however, extremely difficult to write a program that
plays Go to any reasonable standard.  In terms of a computer science project it
is a terrible idea - Chess is such that it comes mainly down to the quality of
the search algorithm, the stability of the code, and the accuracy of the
evaluation function.  Go is different - a Go playing program must be almost
entirely evaluation code, analysing the board in increasingly more complicated
ways which begin to require more and more specialised knowledge.

Anyway, I urge people here to learn the game - it's very cute.

Cheers,
Col

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