On 29/10/2007, Ian Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day guys, > I'm involved in the development of a very powerful and flexible grid > software, which we plan to release in January. It is all java based. > http://www-nereus.physics.ox.ac.uk/ (bear in mind you can't download > it yet and the website is out of date) > > One of the things I'd like to do on it, once it is finished, is some > kind of attack on Go. I've messed around trying to genetically > generate algorithms to play go. However this has had to go on the back > burner for the moment. The brief attempt I made had no way of storing > data between games (I ran out of time) and the best algorithm it came > up with was a purely random algorithm... :-) > > our group is also the one that is doing JPC - http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/ > > I'd love to hear about anyone else distributed attacks on Go.
It would be great to see a java port of GoTools by Thomas Wolf[1], which is probably the kind of thing that most naturally lends itself to distributed attacks. Does anyone know whether GoTools is under active development? The webpages were last updated in 2001... cheers stuart [1] http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ugah006/gotools/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
