Re: [computer-go] Re: GHI

["chrilly" <chrilly@xxxxxxxx>]

>GHI has been first mentioned in the literature in the eighties by Palay
>and Campbell. Yes, it does happen in chess, too :)
>See
>http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~kishi/publication.html

>for our two papers about GHI and how to solve it efficiently.
>Martin
>P.S: Publishing papers is one way of sharing secrets.


Thanks Martin for the references. Publishing papers is probably also better
than putting - like Crafty - code on the net. Avoids the "clone-discussion"
and stipulates also more creativity than just compiling someone elses code.

But for a professional there is one problem: Besides giving other people
information, it takes at least  a weak to write a paper. Just to finance my
living I must earn 1000$ in this weak. Or with other words: The honour of
being published costs me 1.000$.
It is for a prefessional "publish and perish" and not "publish or perish"
like for a person in an academic environment.

In case of the IGCA-Journal I think it is not even a honour, because the
qualitiy of the Journal is rather poor. Most articles are not published for
scientific but for "political" reasons ("you publish in my journal, I
publish in yours, I invite you for my conference, you invite me for yours").
 E.g. there was an incredible poor article about an
FPGA-chess-movegenerator. I was the referee and simply said: The work and
the article is ridicoluos. It was published nevertheless. Every journal has
some "political" aspect, but the good ones have some scientific
"alpha-value". Articles below are prunned.
There are sometimes some good articles too, but nevertheless I would
consider it now even as an insultion to be published in the ICGA-journal. I
do not want to be mentioned in the same context than this FPGA-article.

Chrilly

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