Life In 19x19

Hey! Thanks

Based on your rank, we played right? That was a great game! I've looked at the picture of the completed board a bunch of times thinking about that fight on the bottom.

I think I am going to have to try it out if the progression thing works out and is more fun. Although now that I am thinking about it that will require a good amount of code change for all the X,Y loop upper bounds.

Yeah as long as there is a Tengen the first player should have an advantage ...

You've given me a lot to think about!

I think there is some big potential for the unlocking of bigger boards idea on Steam. That is the kind of thing the player base loves.

I wonder if some even less conventional board sizes might work? 5x5 -> 5x7 -> 7x7 -> 7x9 -> 9x9. Or is square board just that ...

Wow some great stuff here.

Dontbtme: This seems like a really fun idea. I will be experimenting with it for sure. Agree should take off a lot of the new player pressure where people feel intimidated, while being interesting/novel enough to engage people who are improving and moving up to bigger ...

Thanks! Really it doesn't change the game at all and has a lot of overhead, but it gets people in! New players is the goal!

Hey everyone! I posted this on /r/baduk and am here also.

I am an independent developer, and noticed several months back there was no Go client on Steam so got to work. Since the Google AI announcement, I have been rushing to try and be ready to catch some of the people who discover Go exists due ...

So I am making some progress on my Go AI. I am interested in taking a mathematical/board solving approach rather than using Monte Carlo or other similar methods that play out the board. Most similar to what I am doing that I have found is the Benson Algorithm.

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Are there algorithms for other ...

Oh wow thank you. These links are great! More links in the KGS room and all other sites as well. Plenty of info to digest!

Ow wow thank you! This is exactly what I am looking for. Happen to know if there are any other forums/good resources for go AI designers or am I in the right place?

Starting to get into go and really enjoying it. I am a programmer and think I would have same fun and learn more about the game by designing an AI.

Is there any server or native program which is easy to interface with or designed specifically for this? A C/C++ API would be great. What are other ...