Re: computer-go:life and death

["Tristan Cazenave" <cazenave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Unfortunately, the strong programs are proprietary, and have not published
> their
> algorithms.  The academic efforts have all been quite weak, because a
thesis
> project is too short to create a strong program.
>
>

I believe Mark Boon succeeded in writing a world champion computer go
program
during his thesis. Am I wrong ?
Is Gnugo considered academic effort or not ?

> >I don't know of any such results except (I think) for Wilmott's thesis
and
> >the subsequent paper by Willmott, Richardson, Bundy, and Levine
(mentioned
> >in an earlier post).
>
> Unfortunately, the strong programs aren't publishing much :(  I would
> publish more, but it
> is too time consuming.
>

Please David, please, write a paper.
By the way, I would be very interested in a paper by the gnugo team also,
as I have problem analyzing and understanding their code.
Maybe giving the good ideas underlying a program is as important as giving
the code.

Tristan.