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, February 25, 2006

"Kombilo" match diagram

I find myself thinking of, and sometimes calling the new pattern search feature "Kombilo", because there simply was no other program that could do pattern searches. Like people "Googled" the web, they also "Kombilo-ed" Go patterns..

I just added a feature that Kombilo lacks: Matching pattern highlighting in the result list. It works just like the "Example" preview, and you will be able to play through the game from the diagram toolbar, copy the SGF to the clipboard, save SGF etc.

From now on I will call MoyoGo's statistical, fixed patterns "examples", and free-search, Kombilo-style patterns will be "patterns".