I wrote a Go playing program ("Honinbo Warrior") in UCSD Pascal on my Apple II in the late 1970s. I made some money selling it commercially, but it was mostly a hobby.
Also in the 1970s, I had the privilege of playing the women's world champion and also the national champion of South Korea. They both gave me huge handicaps, and still easily beat me - I am not a very strong player. Go really is a great game.
I bought Crazy Stone for my droid phone, and it really is a fine program.
I have asked Albert if he can find the old ALGOL code, as it is of some historical value. The code might be stored on tape, which can be read by Scotch brand IBM tape drives (http://3480-3590-data-conversion.com/). He's going to look for his old dissertation, as well, to see if the listing was included. Otherwise, the tapes will be mailed for a data dump.
Reading Zorbist's paper on computer Go sparked my interest in Go playing programs. It would be great to have his old code, papers, etc. on something like github for a historical record.
I wrote a Go playing program ("Honinbo Warrior") in UCSD Pascal on my Apple II in the late 1970s. I made some money selling it commercially, but it was mostly a hobby.
Also in the 1970s, I had the privilege of playing the women's world champion and also the national champion of South Korea. They both gave me huge handicaps, and still easily beat me - I am not a very strong player. Go really is a great game.
I bought Crazy Stone for my droid phone, and it really is a fine program.