[computer-go] David Elsdon

[Don Dailey]

I don't think I every knew David, but I've heard the name many times.

I am sorry to hear the news.

- Don


On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:51 +0100, Nick Wedd wrote:
> I was very sorry to hear of the recent death of David Elsdon.
> 
> I met David over ten years ago, when he was a member of the Go club here 
> in Oxford, England.  He was also working on his Go-playing program, 
> written in Prolog.
> 
> David and his partner Patricia then moved to Budapest, where he 
> continued to work on his program.  However he developed an inoperable 
> cancer, and this February, as he became weaker, he and Patricia moved 
> back to near Oxford.  He died peacefully late last month.
> 
> Nick