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.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Encapsulated Postscript: Hard Things Done Immediately, Miracles Take A Little Longer, But Easy Stuff Takes Forever

The Enemy Combatant SmartGo boasts of Encapsulated Postscript so I added that too.

I threw in ordinary Postscript as a bonus and everything works very well. EPS support took half a day to accomplish. Not because of the complexity involved but because it took me several hours to figure out how to invoke a specific command line option from within Moyo Go. I do that all the time already, but this time it did not want to work. The solution was mundane but somehow I needed about a hundred trials-and errors to get it working.