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

[Shinichi Sei <ssei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Erik,

I am Shinichi Sei.
I put the paper on my page.
Please refer to http://homepage1.nifty.com/Ike/katsunari/index_e.html

Sincerely,

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>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking for the following publication:
>
>S. Sei and T. Kawashima. A solution of Go on 4ラ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
>