Re: [computer-go] Go Programming Language

2009-11-11 Thread Aldric Giacomoni
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 16:08 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote: > Perhaps it is time to switch to the Korean name, baduk? My money is on weiqi - it's what many people agreed to use on Twitter already, and it is the original name of the game.. --Aldric ___ co

Re: [computer-go] Go Programming Language

2009-11-11 Thread terry mcintyre
Perhaps it is time to switch to the Korean name, baduk? Terry McIntyre Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. - Edward Abbey From: Michael Williams To: comp

Re: [computer-go] Go Programming Language

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Williams
If you thought finding Go(game)-related stuff on the web was hard before... Ben Shoemaker wrote: Has anyone tried programming Go in the "Go" Programming Language? http://golang.org/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Aldric Giacomoni
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:24:13 +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Go Seigen is happily still alive and running his own (afaik fairly > renowned) study group. Wrt. his opinion about the opening, see e.g. > > http://gobase.org/studying/articles/mioch/goseigen/interview-3.html Well .. I flatly apolo

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Stefan Kaitschick
I admit that I was narrowly parsing words. I do like your "bermuda triangle" :-) Stefan - Original Message - From: "Robert Jasiek" To: "computer-go" Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book Stefan Kaitschick wrote: almost any intersec

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Jasiek
Aldric Giacomoni wrote: I'm pretty sure Robert's thought pattern when playing openings that way is a little more than "This intersection will do" and a little less than "This guarantees me a victory". Rather my thinking is: "Can I transform the initial position into a middle game position that

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Jasiek
Stefan Kaitschick wrote: almost any intersections 3rd line and above ... The first statement is a pretty good definition of random. In contrast to random play, nobi, kosumi (except in the corner), empty triangles and the like must be avoided and the opposing stones' position should be taken

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Petr Baudis
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:59:13AM -0600, Aldric Giacomoni wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:43 +0100, "Stefan Kaitschick" > wrote: > >> Characterising the style quickly, it can start the first few moves at > >> almost any intersections 3rd line and above ... > > > >> Ignorants call the early m

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Aldric Giacomoni
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:43 +0100, "Stefan Kaitschick" wrote: >> Characterising the style quickly, it can start the first few moves at >> almost any intersections 3rd line and above ... > >> Ignorants call the early moves "random" but it is only because they lack >> an understanding of their r

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Stefan Kaitschick
> Characterising the style quickly, it can start the first few moves at almost any intersections 3rd line and above ... Ignorants call the early moves "random" but it is only because they lack an understanding of their reasoning ... The first statement is a pretty good definition of rando

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Jasiek
Ingo Althöfer wrote: I am not completely happy with this name. While I don't mind whether it is called by my KGS or my real name. The term sum-style is more frequent though because more kibitzes have a chance to watch me online than in real world tournaments. IIRC, kibitzes invented the term

Re: [computer-go] Go Programming Language

2009-11-11 Thread Stefan Kaitschick
Has anyone tried programming Go in the "Go" Programming Language? http://golang.org/ And the result would be a gogo? hurray! go gogo! ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Jasiek
terry mcintyre wrote: What is "sum-style"? Look through my KGS games as "sum" with Black when I play non-standard fuseki. This is called "sum-style" or "Jasiek-style". Many MC programs happen to have a similar style now but they developed theirs a bit later after I had started mine and both d

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to Fuego!

2009-11-11 Thread Nick Wedd
In message <20091110233800.gf6...@machine.or.cz>, Petr Baudis writes On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:07:22PM +, Nick Wedd wrote: Fuego was the clear winner of Sunday's KGS bot tournament, despite playing without its opening book. My report is at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/53/index.html

Re: [computer-go] Go Programming Language

2009-11-11 Thread Christian Buchner
> Has anyone tried programming Go in the "Go" Programming Language? > > http://golang.org/ And the result would be a gogo? ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] Re: Joseki Book

2009-11-11 Thread Stefan Kaitschick
Ofcourse I can't say what a "correct" opening is. What I can say though, is that if bots are onto something with their strange openings, at this point it's by accident. It is not by accident, it is consistent with what the bot can read. What I mean is that it may well be legitimate to play "