Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Hideki Kato
Though I'm not good at PDA market in Japan, reading Japanese wikipedia, it's seems very small. Sony, which had been making and selling an original Palm, CLIE serie, stopped manifacturing and retired from PDA 2005, for example. No Japanese company sell Palm devices now. I've checked Japanese l

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Ben Shoemaker
First of all, I apologize for the "one word per line"-quoting in my previous message. It apparently has to do with plain/text, "Yahoo Mail Beta", and firefox not playing well together. (I have switched back to "Yahoo Mail Classic" as a work around.) --- Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Don Dailey
I like AIGO too.It has more features than Ogo and a better user interface with nicer graphics in my opinion and I bought a copy. In response to Ben's post about Ogo not being significantly stronger, I will present what I have found in my tests. 1. I never tested 19x19, I can't say whether

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Mark Boon
What's Palm's market in Japan? Does it actually exist? I put Goliath on my SonyEricsson phone, only to find out that all Japanese phones have a completely different platform. Mark ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Don Dailey
> That makes sense, considering past programs. But Don Dailey is apparently on > the trail of a faster and better player for the Palm. > On the one hand, I wonder if the Palm architecture has reached end-of-life. > But on the other hand, discovering how to improve Go programs for tiny > compute

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
I've greatly enjoyed Aigo over the years. I have it on my palm and have upgrade hardware 3x and each time the author has kindly given me a new registration code for free. Think it only cost $8 and well worth it. Just my $0.02 -Josh ___ computer-go maili

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Ben Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I used a Palm for many years. I believe Chess Genius was a great success because it was quite fast (nearly instant response time) yet it was strong enough to give the average user a good game. All the Go programs I

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Ben Shoemaker
>> Ian wrote: >> I'm surprised that the big names in Go programming a decade ago >> haven't ported their programs to the small handheld platforms. I only >> know of AI Go for the Nintendo DS (Many Faces). In the chess arena, >> Richard Lang ported his last

Re: [computer-go] experiments in alpha beta

2008-02-07 Thread Don Dailey
Ian Osgood wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Don Dailey wrote: > >> I'm thinking about upgrading my palm OS Go program and I'm looking for >> ways to strengthen it without adding a lot of code or memory. >> Basically I want the strongest possible program that is truly "light" in >> every way.

Re: [computer-go] experiments in alpha beta

2008-02-07 Thread Ian Osgood
On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Don Dailey wrote: I'm thinking about upgrading my palm OS Go program and I'm looking for ways to strengthen it without adding a lot of code or memory. Basically I want the strongest possible program that is truly "light" in every way. PDA's of course are MUCH s

[computer-go] experiments in alpha beta

2008-02-07 Thread Don Dailey
I'm thinking about upgrading my palm OS Go program and I'm looking for ways to strengthen it without adding a lot of code or memory. Basically I want the strongest possible program that is truly "light" in every way. PDA's of course are MUCH slower than PC's, and memory is at a premium alth

Re: [computer-go] More UCT / Monte-Carlo questions (Effect of rave)

2008-02-07 Thread Erik van der Werf
Hmm, sounds like I should experiment some more. Thanks! Erik On Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Hideki Kato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Erik, > > My program is very based on MoGo's report and the paper. Yes, I > used FPU of 1.15. > > -Hideki > > Erik van der Werf: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >