toad@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Todd Kaufmann) (04/04/85)
Is anyone interested in playing go by mail? It would go slow, but also there would be fewer mistakes due to unsearched spaces.. so you'd probably play better. Is anybody playing go like this now? Who's interested in a usenet mail go tournament? todd kaufmann (13 kyu) toad@cmu-cs-spice.arpa [is games.pbm gone, or is it just gone on my machine? i would also have posted there...]
dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz) (04/15/85)
> Is anyone interested in playing go by mail? It would go slow, but also > there would be fewer mistakes due to unsearched spaces.. so you'd probably > play better. Is anybody playing go like this now? Who's interested in > a usenet mail go tournament? > > todd kaufmann (13 kyu) > toad@cmu-cs-spice.arpa > > [is games.pbm gone, or is it just gone on my machine? i would also have > posted there...] It seems to me that several years aGO I read an article in the American GO Journal where turtle mail GO was discussed. The author concluded that the optimum board size for this was (if I recall) 5 x 9. Electronic mail might help a little, but you would still be playing on a very restricted board size. Upon request, I can dig out my old copies of the journal and try to find the exact reference. D.Katz
tracy@hcradm.UUCP (Tracy Tims) (04/21/85)
I started writing a GO pbm program about two years ago. I got the board
handler with the position evaluation algorithms implemented (curses, of
course) but I never finished the rest of it off. It's all sitting here...
If someone wanted to work on it, I'd send it to them.
Tracy Tims ihnp4!utzoo!hcr!hcradm!tracy
Human Computing Resources Corporation utcsri!hcr!hcradm!tracy
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 416 922-1937 dciem!hcr!hcradm!tracy