On 9/11/07, Nick Wedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don > Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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