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.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Board Coordinate System

I like to have a paper version of the internal board coordinate system, to make debugging easier.

My first grid was 64x64, to make it fastest to calculate a neighbor point. So that grid had huge borders around the goban.

The new grid has no border at all. The coordinates are simply numbered from 0 to 360.

posted by Franciscus @ 2:08 PM