X-Prize: Master-level Go Program

Goal
A program that, on off-the-shelf hardware, plays Go at a master level (1 dan, for instance).

Criteria

Achieve 1 dan in the standard fashion prescribed by the International Go Association, modified solely by the fact that the person making the moves would not be the person playing the game, a la Deep Blue vs. Kasparov.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

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Re^3: X-prize Suggestions here please! by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 15, 2004 at 15:25 UTC
Suggestions: Split this node into two, leaving one idea here, and another at the same level. Clarify the "goal" of each challenge. Add a section denoting the judgement criteria for each. Update: Change the title of each post to something like: "Xprize: Natural language processing" and "Xprize: Master level Go program". Thanks. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply]
Re: X-Prize: Master-level Go Program by DrHyde (Prior) on Oct 15, 2004 at 16:16 UTC
Even doing it on custom hardware (à la Deep Blue) would be pretty damned impressive.	[reply]