MoGo was inspired by Crazy Stone? I've never heard that before.
Ian Osgood wrote:
On May 23, 2009, at 3:17 AM, Joshua Shriver wrote:
I know with the Chess community, it's looked down upon to use others
code w/ respect to competing in tournaments. I'm curious, how is it
with Go?
Even more so. A decade ago, a couple of North Korean programs were
alleged to have been plagiarized from the successful Chinese program
Handtalk. The stigma was so strong that a decade later one of the
programs, KCC Igo, was refused entry to the 2008 Computer Olympiad.
From my understanding, many projects are inter-linked, and even some
of the highest programs are derivatives of other engines. In the chess
world that would be considered a "clone" and instantly banned and
looked down upon.
Perhaps I'm mistaken in my reading, but isn't Mogo a clusterized and
highly tuned version of gnugo? Things like that made me want to make
this post. As I find the Go programming community more open to sharing
ideas and code than my chess world counter part.
You are thinking of the cluster research program SlugGo. That developer
and the GNU Go team have the friendly agreement not to both compete in
the same tournament at the same time. GNU Go only participated in the
2008 US computer Go championship when SlugGo could not get its new
cluster working in time to participate.
MoGo itself was inspired by French compatriot Crazy Stone. Both of these
programs are academic research projects which publish their research
(though they don't share code as far as I know). The field of Computer
Go owes them and the Indigo team a great debt for publishing their Monte
Carlo tree search results. Early Go programmers Bruce Wilcox, David
Fotland, and Mark Boon were also very generous to explain the internals
of their programs in great detail.
Will gladly stand corrected w/ Mogo if i'm wrong. Though curious to
hear everyones input.
-Josh
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