Re: [gnugo-devel] GUI and Moyo

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Alexander wrote:

> Paul wrote:
> > Where can it be found?  Or is it not available yet?
>
> I e-mailed it to Pete Shinners of pygame.org, but haven't heard or seen
> anything about it since. It's GPL, but the only place it's available right
> now is on my laptop. :) I might release it on SourceForge, Savannah or my
> homepage. Any ideas?

You can put it up on Savannah or Gna! (https://gna.org/).  SourceForge is
of course an option too, but I omitted it because of a personal distaste ;)

> It's a completely separate program that talks to GNU Go via GTP. It
> generates the 20 or so first moves, and then uses the GNU Go engine for the
> rest of the moves.
>
> [...]
>
> My code is only for generating moyo-expanding moves. When I try to run my
> code for the 20 first moves, and then GNU Go for the rest of the moves
> against "pure" GNU Go, my version always wins. But, overriding the 20 first
> moves is sub-optimal, since it's unable to handle stuff like contact play
> in the very beginning. After the C-version is finished, I hope it will
> perform even better than the current Python-version, and that it will also
> be able to generate a good move or two for the mid- or endgame.

Aha, this makes sense.  GNU Go is weak in the beginning of the game and any
improvement is of course very desirable.  We will be very interested in C
code, if you produce it.

One point: if you want to directly contribute to GNU Go, you will need to
assign copyright to Free Software Foundation.  Are you willing to do this?

> [...]
>
> Are there any
> resource-persons connected to the GNU Go project that I can contact over
> time?

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Paul