Life In 19x19

Here's the newest one that has me searching obsessively:

D. Lefkovitz, A strategic pattern recognition program for the game of Go, University of Pennsylvania, The Moore School of Electrical Engineering,Wright Air Development Division, Technical Note 60-243, 1–92, 1960.

I've attempted contact with ...

Thank you Robert for your contribution to the go community - I have read and followed much of your writing, and surely will continue to...

I am not "asking" for copyright violation - I asked for shareable copies. If they are not available, or not to be shared, then a link to where I can purchase ...

Thank you Jon!! I've recently begun my master's degree in Computer Science and would like to see how far along I can get in putting together a comprehensive collection of significant computer go research. This is primarily for me, so I have a clear idea of what has already been done before I push ...

Hello all,
Just wondering if anyone has pdfs (or other shareable copies) of some early computer go research or any early AGA publications. In particular, I am looking for:
"13 Line Go", by Gilbert Rosenthal (1954)
"How To Play Go", by Takagawa Kaku, published by the AGA in 1958
"The Vital Points of ...

Thanks Gohst - very helpful info! It seems KGS is the place for bots - does anyone know if any other server allows for them?

Hello all,
I'm interested in eventually setting up my own go-playing program bot on the online go servers. Two questions: Which servers provide for this possibility, and can anyone point me in the direction of where the information is online on how to do that for each? I am aware that KGS does (not ...

Hello all,
Just wondering if anyone can point me to any link discussing whatever is currently considered the largest solved go board. I can find articles from a few years ago discussing a solution to 7x7 go, though I am wondering if anyone is aware of current attempts at solving go. Thank you.

Does anyone know if the rule still stands that Murakawa now receives promotion to 8p for winning the Oza, one of the minor of the big 7 titles?

Can anyone link me to a site that can convert chinese calendar dates to western calendar dates AS FAR BACK AS THE 1800's? Most seem to stop at 1900.

With the discussion about today being Honinbo Shusaku's birthday, I looked up his birthday in the GoGod database (via Smartgo Kifu) and see it listed ...

Invincible and Smartgo Kifu (GoGOD) lists his birthday differently - is this a lunar calendar thing or something?

Hello,
Just wondering if someone could tell me the name of Fujisawa Hideyuki's autobiography (original, in Japanese) and perhaps where I could purchase a copy of it. Thank you!

Anyone willing to speculate about the origin of ko? Is it perhaps natural to think that in the ancient beginnings of go that there was no rule against immediate recapture - that, in a sense, it could have been seen simply as a defensive measure, along the lines of telling your opponent, "hey, you ...

Sooo, I went over to SL to see the Japanese and Chinese words for 'liberty', in the sense that a stone has 4 liberties (empty adjacent intersections) - and was greeted by a disgruntled contributors arguing over the content and formatting of the liberty page, lol. Gotta love strong personalities ...

not colloquial, just bad.

And I vote for your proposed wording. It is clear and correct.

Enough for me on this one

We all understand the intention of the rule (of course). Isn't it obvious that the wording is wrong? It is silly to defend the meaning of 'any' as zero or more stones captured, when more than zero stones captured never leads to self-capture. Why defend the wording - the wording should be changed ...