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.

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Multicore Hardcore

If there still was any doubt: Thanks to free market competition, we'll have desktop machines with hundreds of CPU cores in the foreseeable future.

Intel - nervous because their superior Itanium processor bit the dust and AMD's Opteron stole the glory - has announced they intend to put hundreds of CPU cores on a die.

This is good news for future Tsumego solvers..

posted by Franciscus @ 2:25 PM