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From: jkm@linus.UUCP (Jonathan K. Millen)
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Subject: Re: Programming Go
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Date: Thu, 29-Dec-83 09:53:00 EST
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There is a paper by Walter Reitman and Bruce Wilcox on the LISP
program developed at the U. of Michigan: "The  Structure and
Performance of the Interim.2 Go Program", Int. Joint Conf. on
A. I., 1979, pp. 711-719.  Reitman is now at NYU and Wilcox
at Intermetrics in Cambridge, MA.  According to Wilcox, the program
plays at about 5 kyu until the endgame, when it degenerates to 13
or so, because no special endgame heuristics had been developed.

Less ambitious Go programmers may be interested in an article of
mine on a beginner's level Go program in the April '81 issue of
BYTE.

				     Jon Millen
				     Bedford, MA