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computer-go: Who has (read) the manuscript of Sei & Kawashima (2000)?



Hi all,

I'm looking for the following publication:

S. Sei and T. Kawashima. A solution of Go on 4×4 board by game tree
search program. Manuscript, Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory, 2000.


It's been referenced to in Papers by a number of people, but all I could
find from the original was the following abstract:

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IPSJ SIGNotes Game Informatics Abstract No.004 - 011


A Solution of Go on 4x4 Board by Game Tree Search Program

Sei Shinichi, Kawashima Toshiaki 

Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory Ltd. 

We had made a search program to find a solution of Go on mini-board (4x4
or smaller) based on the Japanese Go rule. This paper describes the
solutions and the method of our program. As the result of executions, we
found that the solution were draw on 4x4 board, victory of black on 3x3
board, and draw on 2x2 board. 
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I'm especially interested in the type of search they applied. Was it an
alpha-beta with enhancements, a kind of PN-search, or something
original. It would be nice to have the publication, but since I expect
it to be written in Japanese, I'd be very happy if somebody who actually
read the paper could fill me in on the details.

Thanks in advance,
Erik