Re: Strong players only?

[yuefang <yuefang@xxxxxxx>]

I also feel confused about this question. Since now the level of computer
go is still very low, if we can build a program that reached 1 amateur
dan, it is also a great break through. then, do we really need so much
advanced knowledge?
BTW, the Ing cup is the competition between computers, is it sure that the
champion is also the one that can play best with human?

Yue

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, 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 )
>