Re: Strong players only?

[Mousheng Xu <xu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Darren,
	If Go playing knowledge other than rules is needed for a good Go program,
then a good go playing programmer will greatly help or is fundamentally
important. A pro Go player don't know how to translate the knowledge to
programming concepts because he does not think in the way a computer
thinks, and a pro programmer who does not know how to play Go well does not
have the source of Go knowledge.
	But I doubt a Go programmer cannot write a Go program which can beat
himself. A 2k play may write a 2d program.	
	My two cents.

	Thanks.

-- Mousheng Xu

At 10:08 AM 11/24/98, Darren Cook wrote:
>I was just looking through the Ing cup pages. Results are here
>(congragulations to David Fotland!):
>   http://www.britgo.demon.co.uk/ing/results.html
>
>What caught my interest was the below quote from Professor Chen, describing
>Wulu. How many people agree or disagree that a poor go player cannot be a
>good go programmer, and why do you think that?
>
>This is an important issue with more and more of the AI community becoming
>interested in computer go.
>
>Darren
>
>
>Professor Chen writes: 
>Ms. Chen Guobao is my daughter. She was the main writer of Wulu before the
>1996
>       Ing Cup. Meanwhile, Miss Lei Xiuyu was a professional goe player and
>spent some
>       spare time in writing Wulu. She became a full-time programmer from
>December 1996
>       and then became the main writer of Wulu. As my daughter is a poor
>Goe player, she
>       cannot be a good programmer of goe software. Mr. Lu Jinqiang joined
>the team in
>       October 1997 and wrote the interface part of Wulu. He is also a good
>player of
>       goe. Mr. Li Zhihua jointed the team in September 1997. He is a
>player of goe, even
>       better than Miss Lei and Mr. Lu. But he is bad at programming, so he
>can only do
>       some auxiliary jobs including the joseki library, etc. 
>
>
>Chen Zhixing 
>(from  http://www.britgo.demon.co.uk/ing/gen.html )
>
>