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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

3300.0. "GO on the Amiga" by JGO::CHAPMAN () Mon Jan 08 1990 10:26

    I've just seen that Fish Disk 289 has a GO playing program, called
    AmiGo. Anybody played this? What sort of game does it play? If it
    can play reasonably, this a quite an achievement. I started writing
    one myself a couple of years ago, but gave up trying to give it
    even basic skills.  I thought it was almost unprogrammable.
    
    
    INfinity Software(?) used to have a GO program I think, but I never
    saw or used it, and I noticed it wasn't in the AmigaWorld Games
    roundup a couple of months ago. Anybody know if they/it still exist?
    I don't even know for sure that it was a full GO implemenation.
    The ONLY other one I EVER heard of was for the I*M and was a couple
    of hundred dollars.
    
    I'll try AmiGo anyway.
    
    Colin

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3300.1	The Art of Go	11SRUS::MARK	Waltzing with Bears	`Mon Jan 08 1990 14:33`	5
	There's a commercial Go game for the amiga called "The Art of Go". I think this game is a port from the Mac. It has a few nice options, like numbering stones, or letting you review a previous game. It plays fairly well, and you can customise the way it plays. They don't give a rating for it, and I haven't been able to estimate it yet.
3300.2	Who's is it?	JGO::CHAPMAN		`Tue Jan 09 1990 02:56`	4
	Never heard of that one. Can you tell me who publishes it? Colin
3300.3		11SRUS::MARK	Waltzing with Bears	`Wed Jan 10 1990 13:42`	6
	"The Art of Go" is published by: A-Squared Distributions Inc. 6114 La Salle Ave., Suite 326 Oakland, California 94611 (415) 339-0339
3300.4	A review	JGO::CHAPMAN		`Thu Jan 11 1990 03:16`	33
	I played a game of AmiGo last night. I'd recommend anybody intersested in the game try it. The result - playing at its highest level (7 on a scale of 1 to 7), I beat it by over 100 points. Anybody who has never played the game and who is used to chess programs may think this sounds like it has pretty pathetic algorithms, but actually I was quite impressed. It has an option to view all the look aheads, and it is pretty thorough. In an opening corner, it caught me out. Predictably, it tends to play 'close' with little strategic play except in the opening, tends to play safe rather than attack, often disregards sante/gote (sp?), made at least one elementary mistake when it could have finished off my small corner group, strugglng for eyes, by playing within, and it gave up a little soon in the ending. Some features are not implemented, ie. -smaller boards -take back moves -load and save games (would be nice) -no scoring (a pain - the game just says game over, you have to count up yourself to see if you won or lost! The source code is there, so if I feel up to it I may look at adding scoring at least. Anybody feel like a real programming challenge. Improve the play algorithms. Apologies to those out there to whom GO is a complete mystery. If you are mystified enough to want to know more, buy a teach yourself book (the game only has 3 rules). Also read "The Glass Bead Game" by Herman Hesse, and you will be hooked. Colin