RE: new incredibly strong go program? Forget it, it's a joke.

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since Jago only plays 9x9, I tried it against igowin.  Igowin
beat it twice giving two stones.  I couldn't play at three stones,
since at 3 stones, Jago won't accept igowin's first move
(in contact with one of the handicap stones).

David


At 12:02 PM 1/29/99 +1000, Xue Wei wrote:
>Hi, Fuming,
>
>Sorry, that guy's name is so similar to yours, I was just wondering :)
>
>I played with JaGo, and I understand that it is a decent program although 
>far from strong. The author of such a good work will not make such a fool 
>on a BBS, and come here.
>
>Now, just that, my enquery servered as a clearify that Luming != Fuming.
>
>Or Luming said that he has a brother? :)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Fuming Wang [SMTP:fuming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent:	Friday, January 29, 1999 2:44 AM
>To:	Xue Wei
>Cc:	Dan Stromberg; computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject:	RE: new incredibly strong go program? Forget it, it's a joke.
>
>
>His name is Fuming Wang :) By the way, it's called JaGo, and it has a new
>home at "http://members.xoom.com/fmwang";
>
>Fuming
>
>
>On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Xue Wei wrote:
>
>> As, Mousheng said, that guy Luming (oned) made a lot noise on a Chinese 
>Go
>> BBS.  Gold-Go, then become Gold-Egg, from 4d to 4k, but in reality maybe
>> 400k.
>>
>> BTW, what's the name of Jgo's author, who gave his/her JAVA Go code to 
>the
>> Open-go project?
>>
>
>