Life In 19x19

Rules-based approaches are one thing. I maintain we're missing an algorithm and a couple heuristics, because humans don't play go with complete playouts or learn it from (millions of) silly plays.

I have a lot of grudging respect for MCTS despite taking opportunities to call it throwing spaghetti ...

What's the "state of the art for traditional methods" in computer Go? Have there been any advancements since the application of monte carlo playouts, or would it still be a big deal to come up with even a shodan bot (or efficient life and death solver) that doesn't use them or networks trained from ...

Here's my output. I *think* I've had this problem longer than Java 1.7 has been around.

C:\...>java -jar testaudio.zip
Unable to open Java mixer.
You have the following mixers available:
Primary Sound Driver
Speakers (SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC)
Primary Sound Capture Driver ...