[computer-go] Knowing nothing about it

[Chrilly]

Sylvain Gelly wrote:
You are totally right. For Yizao (one of the author of MoGo), who is a
good Go player, this gives a bad "style" to MoGo. As I don't know how to
play Go (beyond the rules :)), I don't see any style and I don't care :).

I forwarded this to other people in the computer-chess community. The common 
answer was: Sylvain has the right qualification to be the new shooting star 
in Computer-Go.

Feng Hsu wrote in the beginning of the Deep Blue project a paper "Building a 
GM-level chess programm without knowing nothing about chess".
This was probably a paraphrase of Hans Berliner, the former correspondence 
chess world-champion who build HiTech. I assume everytime Feng Hsu made a 
proposal Berliner did not like, he told him that he knows nothing about 
chess. Feng Hsu had even at the end of the Deep Blue project problems to 
make moves correctly on the board. It was not obvious for him were the 
square c5 is.

There is another Chrilly's law: Everybody besides a GM can write a strong 
chess programm. Maybe this holds also for Go-Programms. Everyboyd beside a 
Dan can write a strong programm. Or maybe its the other way round. The 
programms are relative weak, because the programmers are all too strong.

Chrilly