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.

Friday, November 18, 2005

Tygem, Cyberoro & IGS

On of my customers (his name is Neil Mclean) made importers for the games for the most popular Go servers. I can't thank him enough for that.

I hope he doesn't give his sources to the "competition" ;-D

The only thing left to do for me was to figure out which encoding is used, and to display this correctly in Moyo Go Studio. Behold the result!

Neil also downloaded and donated 21,000 of the strongest Tygem games, so you can imagine how happy I am.