Books about Computer Go

コンピュータ囲碁GREAT

Yoshikawa Takeshiro

In this book, the chairman of the Japanese Computer Go Association and author of the go-playing program "GREAT" reveals its source code (written in C++ and Java) to show you exactly how a real go-playing program is written. The second part is a guide to using KGS. (GREAT's scoring module is used in KGS for score estimation.)

More information (in Japanese) here.

The Go Player's Almanac

edited by Richard Bozulich

Chapter 12, by David W. Erbach, gives clear accounts of some techniques used by early computer Go programs. However this chapter has not been updated since the 1992 edition.

Available here.

Games of No Chance

edited by Richard J. Nowakowski

Deals with the mathematics of game analysis, rather than with programming.

Four chapters are about Go:

• Where is the "Thousand-Dollar Ko"?, Berlekamp & Kim
• Eyespace Values in Go, Landman
• Loopy Games and Go, Moews
• Experiments in Computer Go Endgames, Müller & Gasser

The Pattern Recognition Basis of AI

Donald Tveter

Emphasizes some of the newer methods: neural networking, case based and memory based methods while still covering the important symbolic methods and showing how they are all related. It also emphasizes the problems involved in producing systems with human levels of performance.

Section headings, and links to on-line chapters, here.

A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition

Luc Devroye, László Györfi and Gábor Lugosi

Very much on the theoretical side.

Supposedly in print, but hard to obtain.

Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)

Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork

Heavy going.

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