[computer-go] Explanation to MoGo paper wanted.

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

Don wrote:
> Of course now we just had to go and spoil it all by imposing domain
> specific rules.  I have done the same and I admit it.    It would be fun
> to see how far we could go if domain specific knowledge was forbidden as
> an experiment.   Once patterns are introduced along with other direct Go
> knowledge, it's still fun but it feels a bit "wrong", kind of like
> cheating.   It's clear that when we do this, we introduce strengths and
> weaknesses to the program,  making it a bit more fragile, less
> "universal" or robust.  Stronger too, but more susceptible to
> in-transitivity.  

I'm on the other side of this issue. In my opinion all kinds of go
knowledge are fair game and I'm rather disappointed that so small
amounts of domain specific knowledge have been merged with the UCT
search approaches.

/Gunnar