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.

Saturday, November 19, 2005

40,000 pro games!

One of the reasons I wanted to have Unicode capability was the fact that I recently found 4,000 professional games not yet in Moyo Go Studio's collection. But the players' names are in Chinese.

Moyo Go's next update (in 24 hours, heaven permitting) will be capable of displaying the CJK languages (when enabled in the Windows setup). Tomorrow I'll make a new pro database update available here which includes those four thousand games. Later, there might be a function available that transliterates Chinese, Korean and Japanese names to their corresponding phoneticized equivalents. I am working on more advanced database- adding filters, like keeping either the phonetic or the native names.

Moyo Go Studio now has by a very wide margin the most pro games on the market.