[computer-go] Tesuji

[Jason House]

On 9/11/07, Nick Wedd <nick at maproom.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.



It may be important to distinguish the ratings that people are now with
their ratings when they started coding their program.  I've improved by 9
stones (by kgs ratings) since I started my bot.  (I wish I could say I'm a
dan, but at 3k I think I'm still far from it).  I find that sitting down to
work on my bot often encourages me to play go instead... naturally leading
to improved playing strength.

I partly decided to write a bot so that I would be forced to solidify my go
knowledge (through the process of teaching the computer what I know in a
systematic way).  Sadly, I don't think my coding of go has taught me
anything about go yet.
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