Re: Small board Go

[mueller@xxxxxxxxx (Martin Mueller)]

From: Freek van Keulen <freekvankeulen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>> I have a question: who has done work on computer solutions of Go on small
>> NxM boards? I'm aware of the ancient papers by Thorp and Walden but did not
>> find much other work.
>
>Are these ancient papaers available on the Internet?

I don't think so. Here are some references to the good-old-paper versions.

@ARTICLE{thorpwalden64,
 AUTHOR       = "Thorp, E. and Walden, W.",
 TITLE        = "A Partial Analysis of {Go}",
 JOURNAL      = "Computer Journal",
 VOLUME       = "7",
 NUMBER       = "3",
 PAGES        = "203--207",
 YEAR         = "1964",
 NOTE         = "Reprinted in: \cite{levy88}, Vol.II, pp.143--151"}

@ARTICLE{thorpwalden72,
 AUTHOR       = "Thorp, E. and Walden, W.",
 TITLE        = "A Computer Assisted Study of {Go} on M*N Boards",
 JOURNAL      = "Information Sciences",
 VOLUME       = "4",
 NUMBER       = "1",
 PAGES        = "1--33",
 YEAR         = "1972",
 NOTE         = "Reprinted in: \cite{levy88}, Vol.II, pp.152--181"}

@BOOK{levy88,
 EDITOR       = "Levy, D.",
 TITLE        = "Computer Games I+II",
 PUBLISHER    = "Springer Verlag",
 PUBLADDR     = "New York",
 YEAR         = "1988"}

        Martin