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-----Original Message----- From: Sarah Nightingale (Interaction Recruitment PLC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2007 17:25 To: Jack Lang Subject: Microsoft Research Lectures: Akihiro Kishimoto, Future University-Hakodate MICROSOFT RESEARCH LECTURE This is a PUBLIC lecture ________________________________________ TITLE: Developing the Best Life and Death Solver in Go SPEAKER: Akihiro Kishimoto INSTITUTION: Future University-Hakodate HOST: David Stern DATE: 13 November 2007 TIME: 15:00 - 16:00 MEETING ROOM: Lecture-room small(50 seats) ADDRESS: Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge Computer Go is one of the ultimate challenges for games research. Despite of a lot of efforts for building state of the art programs, Go is still resistant to current AI techniques, even for solving subproblems such as Life and Death, or tsume-Go. This talk presents the techniques behind TsumeGo Explorer, a high-performance tsume-Go solver. TsumeGo Explorer uses df-pn(r), a new search algorithm that improves the depth-first proof-number search algorithm. The program also contains domain-dependent enhancements. In empirical tests, TsumeGo Explorer out performs GoTools, which has been the undisputedly best tsume-Go solver for the last 15 years. --- You are currently subscribed to msrclectures as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] m Please see our Privacy Statement: http://research.microsoft.com/msrsupp/privacy.htm _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
