[net.games.go] Keep it.

rfb@cmu-cs-h.ARPA (Rick Busdiecker) (08/16/85)

I'd like to see net.games.go.  I'm really not interested in reading net.games
because there aren't any other games besides Go that I want to read about.
I'm sure that I would end up missing any Go announcements because it was not
worth my while to sort through the other articles in net.games.go.

However, there's usually quite a long time between any discussions which
start up on this bboard.  This makes it rather difficult to justify the
overhead which is involved.

Rick

bts@mcnc.UUCP (Bruce T. Smith) (08/17/85)

I'd like to see net.games.go stay around, also, but it needs to
have some *real* messages in it, not just requests that it stay
alive.  Wasn't there a computer go tournament at some conference
earlier this summer?  How about a report on that? (Does anyone
know what I'm talking about?)
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jkm@security.UUCP (Jonathan K.Millen) (08/19/85)

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Yes, please keep it.  Net.games.go has been a useful source of announcements
for me: a Go congress this summer, Bruce Wilcox's Nemesis/PC program, and
Eric's Go night.

There aren't many discussions in this group; that's fine.  Does it really
justify a group to have endless trivial bickering over insignificant passing
topics as in many other groups?

Jon Millen
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jkm@mitre-bedford
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alan@sun.uucp (Alan Marr, Sun Graphics) (08/20/85)

In 1984, Peter Langston (now at bellcore) initiated a computer go
tournament at Usenix.  This year, there was another, and Peter's
program won.  Perhaps this is understandable, since Peter used
to be the head of the Computer Games group at Lucasfilm.

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"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."  Noel Coward

campbell@ucla-cs.UUCP (08/26/85)

I believe you are referring to the "First Annual USENET Computer Go
Tournament" which was supposed to be held last summer at the USENET
conference in Utah.  I was also interested in this, so I posted a
request about it; but I never got any response.

How about it, gang!  Did the tournament take place or what?

MIke Campbell

hwc@persci.UUCP (09/04/85)

I heard there were several matches between the Chinese and Koren professional
go players held in California back in Match or April.  Did anyone know the
results ?

		HonWah Chan