Evolution of a Go program

About the development of Moyo Go Studio, software to (help) play the Oriental game of Go. Go is a two-player zero-sum game of perfect information. It is considered much harder than Chess. Currently, in spite of enormous effort expended, no computer program plays it above the level of a beginner.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

The power of SQL

I'm so glad I chose an SQL solution to manage MoyoGo's games!

Many cool things can be done. For example, whenever Moyo Go, during game importing, sees a player without a rank, it simply asks its database whether it already knows the rank of that player, and the player's rank will be automagically assigned.