Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 4:41:19 PM UTC-7, matthe...@gmail.com wrote: > > Here's a GPL Go chess library: https://github.com/dylhunn/dragontoothmg > > And a project without license: https://github.com/kjda/chess-on-go > > And a GPL Go chess server with HTML interface: >

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Friday, December 8, 2017 at 11:55:15 PM UTC-7, Filip Zaludek wrote: > > > https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Alpha-Beta Thanks for the link. I read through a lot of the pages. I did find one page that addressed the part I don't understand:

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 10:38:35 AM UTC-7, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > > > > On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 7:11:09 AM UTC-7, Gerald wrote: >> >> On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:07:45 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >> >> >I'll bet if Mozilla had used Go to write FireFox, rather than invent >> their >> >own

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 7:11:09 AM UTC-7, Gerald wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 20:07:45 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > >I'll bet if Mozilla had used Go to write FireFox, rather than invent > their > >own language, Google would have done something to stop them. > > You are aware that

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 11:57:58 PM UTC-7, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 11:37 AM, > wrote: > > > > Google is not going to be happy if somebody uses Go to compete against > > Google. > > I think that Go is a nice language, but it's not

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Elphaba Chess

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 9:06:54 PM UTC-7, as wrote: > > Transitive property abused for emphasis. > >> >>> On Friday, November 24, 2017 at 7:23:06 PM UTC-8, Hugh Aguilar wrote: My ultimate goal with Go is to write a program to "understand" the Ido language, at least

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 12:50:11 PM UTC-7, Jan Mercl wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 2, 2017, 20:38 wrote: > >> >> Google is not going to be happy if somebody uses Go to compete against >> Google. >> > > This is where I stopped considering any of your future posts

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 7:00:55 AM UTC-7, matthe...@gmail.com wrote: > > Writing a chess engine is easier than you may think, those algorithms are > meant to speed up computer moves and computer analysis, neither of which > are necessary to play the game. My engine has none of that

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Friday, December 1, 2017 at 8:47:50 PM UTC-7, Bakul Shah wrote: > There seem to be many chess related packages: > https://golanglibs.com/top?q=chess > I'll look into these --- thanks --- I was not aware of this golanglibs website. -- You received this message because you are

Re: [go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

On Friday, December 1, 2017 at 5:54:44 PM UTC-7, Bakul Shah wrote: > > You should consider writing a chess program from scratch. It could be a > lot of fun! > > If you start with a mature chess playing engine, you wouldn't learn as > much and you would spend time fighting/interfacing with the

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Elphaba Chess

On Friday, December 1, 2017 at 4:45:39 PM UTC-7, matthe...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hugh, > > Go is a general purpose programming language that is open source and > permissively licensed, and there is no obvious reason for Google or other > contributors to change this. I strongly recommend it for

[go-nuts] Re: Elphaba Chess

On Friday, December 1, 2017 at 7:41:24 AM UTC-7, matthe...@gmail.com wrote: > > I don't speak for the language developers but as far as I can tell Go is > always going to be tied to Google's business of datacenter-based network > and web services, so if you want your game as something other

[go-nuts] Re: Would someone care to compare Firefox Quantum Rust concurrency features to Go....

On Thursday, November 23, 2017 at 9:15:27 AM UTC-7, Haddock wrote: > > Concurrency in Rust and Go are completely different things. In Rust a > thread has its own memory space and hence a thread cannot reference data by > reference of some other thread. The rational behind that is security.

[go-nuts] Elphaba Chess

I invented a chess variation called: Elphaba Chess This is just like International Chess except that the queen can't capture the opponent's pieces and it can't be captured --- it is just used for blocking. I would like to write a program to play this game, but writing that from scratch is