RE: computer-go: Engineering (was: Most simple Go rules)

["Grajdeanu, Adrian" <adrian.grajdeanu@xxxxxxx>]

>    White: These stones are dead <a5,a4,f5,g7>
>    Black: <assesses life&death> I wish to challenge
>    White: Accepted
>    Black: plays move
>    White: plays move
>    ....
>    Black: I give up
>    White: These stones are dead <a5,a4,f5,g7,new stones>
>    Black: <retrieves cached result> Agree
> 
>    Why is this difficult to implement?
> 
>    Christian
> 
> 
> Ok,  that's not difficult in principle to implement but it is 
> complicated.
> Which programs can do this automatically between each other?
> 
> Don

Don, your is not an argument. Before the first program that played Go, which
programs could play go?