RE: [computer-go] Words from the wise

[john <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 18:27 -0800, David Fotland wrote:
> I think you have to do whatever keeps you motivated.  If you fully polish
> each 
> algorithm before moving on, you will never have a program that plays well.
> My 
> approach was to do a simple implementation of each item, them over time
> improve
> the ones that caused bad moves as needed.
> 
> I wouldn't have started with the full board search though.  Without a good
> evaluation,
> alpha-beta search won't play good moves.  I suggest you work on the
> evaluation,
> including local search for string stability and connections.  When it can
> make good
> moves with one ply search, then go back to alpha-beta.
> 
> David
> 
<original message snipped>

Thanks hugely, David (and others for direct emails) - sounds like good
advice to me and I'll follow it.

Suggest you put your feet up now for 10 years or so and give me a chance
to catch up with MFOG a bit ;-)

John

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