[computer-go] Tesuji

[Nick Wedd]

In message <1189517924.24394.1337.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Don 
Dailey <drd at mit.edu> writes

>Who has the best Go programs at 19x19 level?   I think David Fotland is
>only 2 Dan and his is one of the best.   I know the old handtalk program
>was written by a very strong player.   How strong is Michael Reiss?
>And the other top guys?

Ken Chen is 6-dan.  Chen, Zhixing, the writer of HandTalk/GoeMate is 
about 5-dan by European standards.  Martin Müller and Robert Rehm are 
5-dan.  Daniel Bump and Arnoud Rutgers van der Loeff are 4-dan.  David 
Forland is 3-dan.  Joachim Pimiskern is 2-dan.  Michael Reiss is 1-kyu. 
Wang, Yizao is 2-kyu.  Guillaume Chaslot and Ivo Tonkes are 3-kyu.

I have heard that Bruce Wilcox learned Go so as to be able to write a 
program to play it, and became 5-dan himself.

Nick
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