While your goal is laudable, I'm afraid there is no such thing as a "simple" tree search with a plug-in evaluator for Go. The problem is that the move generator has to be very disciplined, and the evaluator typically requires elaborate and expensive to maintain data structures. It all tends to be very convoluted and full of feedback loops, in addition to the actual alpha-beta which is trivial by comparison.
If you look at GnuGo or some other available program, I'm pretty sure you'll find a line of code where "the evaluator" is called, and you could replace it, but you'll find it's connected to a pile of spaghetti. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
