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Subject: Re: Go programming

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 12:47:30 02/12/04

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On February 12, 2004 at 15:38:54, Bryan Hofmann wrote:

>
>>Bottom line: I think there's a huge gap in the market that SOMEBODY will get
>>rich from at some point in the not-too-distant future.  And Go is a pretty
>>interesting game, even though "chess" is considered a dirty word to many serious
>>Go players.
>
>Seems to me that there is already several computer based programs for this and I
>don't think any of them are getting rich at it....
>
>http://www.britgo.org/gopcres/gopcres1.html


That's the problem.  Each is "Go"ing it alone.  Nobody has tried to create a
single program with ALL the GUI features, but with a plug-in architecture for
playing engines.  There are maybe 5 top programs, each with a few dozen (or
fewer) features and no plug-in engine interface.  Compare that to ChessBase,
which has hundreds & hundreds of features.

If you build it, they will come...



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