Re: [gnugo-devel] Fwd: [computer-go] 12th KGS online computer Go tournament

[David G Doshay]

Hello Arend,

It surely is our plan to release the code. While I understand your
comment that need to cleanup the code should not be an excuse,
in my own defense I will ask: have you recently looked at student
written code? Some of it is unbelievably poor. It runs, but is hard
to follow and executes very slowly. I have done one pass on the
code cleanup and I will work with more focus on putting out a
cleaner code ... we have been working on Super Ko violations
lately.

I would like to offer in the mean time a copy of the paper from the
3rd ICOB. It does describe in detail exactly what SlugGo does,
although it contains no source code. It is a MS Word doc right
now ... how would you suggest I make that available? If I
remember correctly, the email server does not like attachments
that large.

Cheers,
David



On 3, Mar 2006, at 3:03 AM, Arend Bayer wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, David G Doshay wrote:
>
> > I would like to enter SlugGo in this tournament in the formal
> > division, and as we all know, I cannot do this without your
> > collective OK. I will not be so bold as to take silence as a yes.
>
> I have to admit you could increase my excitement about seeing slugGo
> competing if it wasn't a black box, but if I could see and study its
> code as well. ("We have to cleanup the code" is no excuse, if we would
> wait for that we could not yet release GNU Go ;) )
>
> Having said that, it is fine by me, unless another maintainer has
> objections.
>
> Arend