One would expect that a lot of Go-specific knowledge is required to develop a
good program, but my impression is that some of the best Go programs so far
have been actually written by people who know little about the game itself.
Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind
masters; but they mean to be masters. -- Daniel Webster
----- Original Message ----
From: Russ Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: computer-go <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:41:36 PM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Tesuji
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
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