[computer-go] New engine? From a Chess programmer perspective.

[Petr Baudis]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 03:42:02PM +0000, Russell Wallace wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2007 2:02 PM, Joshua Shriver <jshriver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There was a thread on CCC (computer chess) about Go. An interesting post was
> > made that linked to Leela, a Go engine and GUI written by the author of Deep
> > Sjeng which is a moderate to high level chess engine.
> >
> >  http://www.sjeng.org/leela.html
> >
> > Have any of you bought or tested the full version or have any more info?
> > Seems interesting.
> 
> I haven't seen Leela before, but the claim of high dan-level
> performance on 9x9 is certainly interesting. Do you have a link to the
> CCC thread?

Interesting, based on idead from a Chess engine? Was the general
algorithm published? Is it MonteCarlo-based or something completely
different?

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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