Moyo Go Studio DevBlog

In a previous posting I mentioned Dariush’ pattern system, and how it was on a par with Moyo Go’s in terms of pro-prediction.
(But Moyo Go gives accurate statistical data on moves, Dariush doesn’t and there are many more big differences that make Dariush, in my opinion, not a serious competitor YET).
Of course I have many […]

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Translating the Chinese names took days of hard work, and I still didn’t manage to do the ones with morwe than 3 characters. I discovered that almost all names I had translated belonged to amateurs, so I later deleter more than a hundred games.
I found a couple of name lists on the web and used […]

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I realize that it’s hardly a groundbreaking feature, but I have taken to translating those players’ names that are not yet done. I do Google searches on their Chinese names, and search for English pages only. When I find at least two sites that state them with the same name, I use it, otherwise I […]

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Someone told me that the game packs he paid for & downloaded don’t install properly. Turns out I used the wrong setup files. That’s what happens when you migrate stuff you haven’t worked on in over a year to a different computer and don’t test rigorously..
Three people have bought game packs (two in the US […]

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I thought I’d use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_players to enlarge Moyo Go’s automatic Asian-to-English spelling converter. Well, that’s useless, because the Wikipedia article is full of blatant errors:

Look behind the name of Yasuro Kikuchi. You know what the Japanese name between braces is? “Kato Tomoko”! The link to Yasuro’s page has his correct name.
Funny how someone like myself, […]

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Remember my post about the duplicate Korean names due to non-uniform spelling?
Here is part of a list of players that have games in MasterGo’s database: (MasterGo must bear the brunt today because AGA’s webmaster is also the programmer of MasterGo and Slate & Shell is the company of AGA’s leadership, and AGA is boycotting Moyo […]

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I often watch documentaries when I am waiting for something to finish crunching. Here is one of the most interesting things I have watched in a few years, and I watch about a thousand documentaries a year. It is hard to follow for folks without some basis in electronics, but it is an excellent explanation […]

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While I am making a name filter for the pattern results (example patterns, Fuseki and “Kombilo” patterns), I discovered that a lot of pro games have alternate spellings:
Pak Yeong-ch’an
Pak Cheong-sang
Is this one and the same person or not? If so, which spelling is preferrable? I am fixing this problem as we speak:

This is the socalled […]

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Dariush has been shouting that it has a better pattern system than Moyo Go, so since I decided to start working on the program again, I had a look at Dariush. It is easy to make critical comments about the look & feel and functionality of that software, but that might be unfair, as I […]

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Some customers are not very happy that I promised them free bugfix releases an am now reneging on that promise.
I’ll see what I can do. One of the main problems (the only really big problem, perhaps) is downwards compatibility with the databases. When I add fields to the databases, the bugfix release should somehow downgrade […]

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