On 9/11/07, Joshua Shriver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Was reading a page about Go and came across this term. Anyone know > what it means?
With no disrespect intended, it seems like there are a fair number of go programmers who don't actually know go very much beyond the rules themselves. (I'm assuming from your question that you fall into this category.) So I'm curious why non-go-players (or minimal-go-players) are interested in programming go, instead of a game they know well. Is there a similar situation in chess (are there a lot of chess programmers who don't really know chess)? Hmm, maybe so. I also wonder whether experienced go programmers believe one needs to know go to be able to make a very strong go program. Or will some of the new Monte Carlo etc techniques sufficiently supplant expert domain knowledge that any good programmer with just a rudimentary knowledge of the rules of go will be able to make a strong go program? cheers, russ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
