> ... no book, no joseki,...Mogo generated joseki from whole cloth. > ... > seemed to me that, as Mogo was given more time, its opening and > middlegame play was markedly better.
If it is basically reinventing opening theory from scratch each time then that makes sense. (Though I suppose there is indirectly some go opening knowledge (aka "good shape") in the heavy playout algorithms.) Darren -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic open source dictionary/semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://darrendev.blogspot.com/ (blog on php, flash, i18n, linux, ...) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/