Re: Scoring Go games

[Antti Huima <huima@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Patricia Hughes and David Elsdon wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am developing a strong Go-playing program using AI/KBS techniques. I
                    ^^^^^^
This is a good idea.

> expect the project to take several years. The development of the program 
> is progressing very well at the moment - it plays novice level go on a
> 9x9 board and absolutely slaughters my random go player. It would have
> been very embarrassing if this were not the case !! :-)

However, the random player can be slaughtered with very trivial
algorithms, so you shouldn't use this as a progress meter, I think.

> I am writing my program in LPA Prolog, so if anybody wants some prolog
> code to use as a starting point for developing Go playing software just
> let me know and I'll send you mine. And if anybody has some wizzy bits
> of prolog code for playing go I would be very interested.

I would like to see the code :-) Perhaps you could send it to me or put it
available publicly on some web page? 

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