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, June 10, 2006

Eureka!

In order to get the really good ideas I have to get away from the computer. So I went to this lake and thought.

Contrary to the Internet, this lake does not have evil enemies that want to destroy me.

The "seed" of the idea appeared while I was walking to it (about five clicks uphill from a suburbial subway station). The analysis was done at the lake. Realizing the whole thing was a lousy idea came on the way back, including the alternative idea.

The alternative idea is Big. Really Big. Can't talk about it, sorry. Nice lake, isn't it?