On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:36:42 +0100, Peter Strempel wrote: >The reason why the whole thing is Windows only at the moment simply is, >the scorer is an external program acquired by Pandanet, and we only have >the Windows version of it. If I could write such a thing myself, I'd be >a made man As far as estimators go, I've seen various algorithms written up in the A.I. community, such as life or death calculators, etc. It seems as though a good position evaluator like that would be the heart of a go-playing computer program. So how good is the one you have to use? In other words, is it a parimutuel algorithm trying to fix odds on the outcome, or is it just counting territory if the game stops now? Just curious. Sounds like fun to write. -- David C. Oshel dcoshel@xxxxxxxxx Cedar Rapids, IA http://www.pobox.com/~dcoshel ``Tension, apprehension and dissension has begun!'' - Duffy Wyg&, in Alfred Bester's _The_Demolished_Man_