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From: "Antoine de Maricourt" <antoine.de-maricourt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Well, here they are (no specific order):
#1 : forget alpha-beta
#2 : forget move pruning
#3 : forget hash-keys
#4 : forget pattern matching (I mean, based on visual shape recognition)
#5 : adopt a more mathematical point of view
#6 : ... :-)
Where is the very strong Go program based on these tricks of the trade?
Another comment: When people say this is a "kindergarten" thread, why are so
many people suddenly analizing collision probabilities? Why have some people
not even *heard* of Hamming distance, let alone that maximizing it is in
fact counterproductive (by itself although counter-intuitive).
And.. I know that there were a lot of postings, but the people who were most
vociferously in alledging that I failed to voice my idea and "secret", have
spent the least time actually reading the postings, otherwise they would
notice that indeed I almost immediately fully disclosed my ideas.
You can now only attack the ideas themselves, which you have just - in a
most infantile manner - done without giving any arguments for a rather
hilarious list, neither a reasonable Go program to back it up.
Always try to control your ego or things go wrong.
Mark Boon experienced this when he published his library.
He made 500,000+ USD with his efforts and the only/few reactions he got for
a long time was: "your shit sucks". (I paraphrase..)
Nevertheless, years later some guy in Denmark uses his lib to help produce
the most exciting thing in the last decade in computer Go (MatLab).
Funnily enough, Mark Boon makes himself guilty of exactly the same behaviour
as he accuses others of. I think I do not want to further participate in
this group when there is so much agression and irrationalityas a response to
trying to get an interesting discussion going and disclosing one of my most
important discoveries, something other commercial Go programmers have wisely
refrained from.
Interestingly, the other commercial Go programmers are either silent (Reiss,
Kierulf) or at least mildly derogative (Boon, Fotland). The n00bies simply
have never heard of Hamming distance and say I'm crazy just for using it.
Dyer, who is in a category of his own, also feels threatened. I can do
without such negativity.
I have just one more advice:
Your ego is the only thing that stands in the way of your success.
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