computer-go: perfect play : a new fractal algorithm

[Serge Boisse <boisse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since cute and intelligent algorithms for computer go tend to be very rare ;-),
may I Propose you a new one ? You'll see that it is definitly completly
different from anything else.

And it might be the algorithm God uses to build our universe, which as everybody
knows ;-) is nothing but a gigantic go game God is playing with himself...

I call this algorithm "fractal go".

It's an idea I had three years ago, but I lacked time to get a full working
program for it (I only wrote parts, but not a complete program). I kept it a
secret until now, in the hope I could one day win a lot of money with it, but
now I realise that sharing ideas is better for everybody, including me !

I'm confident that some of you will find the idea interesting AND workable, and
will write code for it. If you do so, let me know it !

Since the description of the algorithm is a bit long, I will not include it in
this post, but rather the algorithm is described in a webpage of mine at
 http://www.multimania.com/boisse/fractalGo.html

I would very like you to look at this page and react in this list. Just to let
you figure out what my algo is able to, let me just say that it can reduce the
branching factor from 150 (on average) to just 4 ! An best of all, the algo fits
the programm with a "sense" of global strategy that currently only human have.

-----claim-----------------------------------------------------
My idea, "fractal go", described in the avove linked web page, will be public
from now on ("now" meaning the date of this posting, September 29, 2000), so
that you can use it freely without giving me any reward or money, with the only
two following restrictions :
1) Should you use this idea in your code, please include the comment "this code
uses the idea of fractal go by Serge Boisse" in your source code.
2) You are not allowed to ask for a patent for any algorithm based onto this
idea.
By the way, I will not ask for a patent, too, since I'm against the very idea of
patenting algorithms and ideas.

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