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Date: Mon May 30 09:46:25 1988
From: Jeannette.Wing@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
To: bovik
Subject: Go


>From: Doug.Tygar@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU,
       Donald.Lindsay@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU,
       Ed.Clune@sam.cs.cmu.edu,
       Eric.Cooper@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU,
       Mark.Hahn@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU,
       Rick.Busdiecker@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU,
       Daniel.Sleator@MYCROFT.PC.CS.CMU.EDU

Bert Enderton, a CS Ph.D. candidate, is the Computer World Go Championship
winner.  Bert's address is hde@cs.cmu.edu.

From: Fred Hansen <wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu>,

See the netnews bboard rec.games.go

I have the sources for a Pascal version of a Go player/game monitor written by
Stoney Ballard.

>From: Alessandro.Forin@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU

Kai Fu Lee has written the world best player (human and non human) of
either Go or Othello, I am not sure which game it was.
In any case, he certainly knows about both, I remember a post from him
long, long ago.

>From: Mike Trick <trick@ohm.ece.cmu.edu>

There is a Go playing program available for the Macintosh.  It is called
Dragon and was written by Liu Don-yueh at Nat'l Taiwan U.  It is
available from Mark Goldfein at U of Illinois.  I have a microsoft word
document and the executable in my office.  You might also look at the
rec.games.go netnews for more info.

>From: David Anderson <dba@cs.cmu.edu>

I've appended the beginning of a recent post on comp.binaries.mac of a program
to play Go.  It plays better than I do, which isn't saying much, except that it
is helpful for learning to play the game.  If you want a copy of the program,
let me know.

--david

> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.binaries.mac: 5-May-88 Dragon 2.1 (part 1 of 4)*
> *Dan LaLiberte@ncsa.uiuc. (32992)*

> From: liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Dan LaLiberte)
> Subject: Dragon 2.1 (part 1 of 4)
> Date: 5 May 88 16:47:57 GMT

> [Dragon 2.1 - part 1 of 4]

> The following is an edited note from Kaihu Chen about Dragon 2.1, the
> second place winner in the 19x19 category of the 1987 International
> Computer Wei-Chi (Chinese for Go):

>       My apology to all who have sent me requests for the long wait.
>       In light of the ~60 requests that I have received, I think
>       there is no better means of distribution than posting it to the
>       net.

>       It has been observed that the program has unimplemented
>       features (non-functioning menu entries), and crashes
>       occasionally.

>       Dragon 2.1 is not shareware; it is public domain, with the only
>       limitation that it may not be used for commercial purposes.
>       You may freely distribute it to any interested party.

>       If you are interested in getting the source, you may try
>       contacting the original author:

>           Liu, Don-yuei
>           Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
>           National Taiwan University
>           Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

>       Mark Goldfain (goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu) has volunteered to
>       handle requests the program on a disk if you cannot get it from
>       the net.  You will need to send him a blank diskette and a
>       self-addressed stamped envelope.

>       As far as I know, the program is not officially rated.  Since I
>       believe Dragon 2.1 is in the same ballpark as Nemesis, and
>       Nemesis was claimed to be 17 kyu (or was it 15 kyu?), I guess
>       it's safe to say that it is also somewhere around 17 kyu.

>       Kaihu Chen
>       chen@uiucdcs.cs.uiuc.edu