[computer-go] Assistance needed

[Rahul S K]

Hi all,

             I am a junior undergraduate from the Indian Institute of
Technoloy(IIT), Bombay, India and am a part of the Techfest organising team.
Techfest is IIT Bombay's Annual International Science and Technology
festival.(www.techfest.org)
           This year, at Techfest, one of the section of competitions called
"wired logic" deals with computer science related competitions. We are
exploring the possibility of holding an online code v/s code GO competition
for students and am currently stuck up on some of the following points, hope
someone can assist me :
 1. Since this is going to be a competition mainly for junior undergrads who
are going to put in about 3 months of efforts, learning the entire protocol
for computer go seems , infeasible. However a simple C++ / Java program that
takes the board scenario as an input (possibly a 19X19 array) , and gives
out the next move is what I have in mind.
2. However in such a code vs code competition, the need to have a
"supervising" program that can understand the territories, life-death
situations and end game scoring complexitites is a big hurdle that I hope to
cross... any help in this regard would be most welcome...any program already
available that you possibly know of would be most appreciated.

Sincerely hope to get a positive reply...

Regards

Rahul S K
Manager, Events
Techfest 2007
rahul at techfest.org
+91 93225 19945
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