Day 123: Passing working

Well, I just solved the passing. Still waits for the other player to pass so it will pass. Not a big thing but, is better than nothing. I still don't know how to force a ko or a suicide shape to see if it works.

So, let's continue with the development. One step forward, one step back... the hard truth...

Day 122: This is getting hard

I think I solved some issues, but to get a stable version is another thing. Sometimes ko method is not working at all, I will test it again tonight and make loads of changes. So, the debut will be with 0.01E for now. Suicide seems to be working.

This IS hard.

Day 120: The ship is sinking

This projet is not easy, it never was, but sometimes it gets frustrating. The BIG mistake I made all this time was to test it on 19x19, just to see some moves.

I tested yesterday on 9x9 and found LOTS of problems: Hangs, illegal moves (ko, suicide), problems when the player passes and moves in the border. Most of them are being saved, but it is taking me a lot of work to solve all of this. Well, back to work!

Day 119: Testing 0.01D

This is a first test of some moves against 0.01D:

(;FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[GoGui:1.4.5] KM[6.5]PW[Evil Tesuji]DT[2012-12-07] ;B[dd];W[pp];B[pd];W[dq];B[co];W[pq];B[jc];W[cc];B[cd];W[cp] ;B[do];W[eq];B[ck];W[qp];B[qj];W[nq];B[jj];W[kq];B[hq];W[po] ;B[ch];W[qc];B[pc];W[gq];B[gr];W[lc])

Hard to say if better or not, by chance it made some interesting moves, but... well, who knows...

Day 119: Preparing Evil Tesuji for debut

Well, right now I am reading how to connect my engine to KGS, I am trying very hard to run first tests without me playing by Dec. 15th.

For now I think that the version 0.01D (the actual) will be playing, I will continue to develop version 0.01E and if it is stable by then, then let it play :)

There is a tutorial on how to set up bots in kgsgtp file, and there is another one here, so, I if you are often on KGS maybe in next days you will see Evil Tesuji account connecting and desconecting all the time :).

I know Evil Tesuji will be destroyed in every single match. But I am really wanting to see it play, it is just a starting point for this.

Day 118: Going further with last post

Thinking about last post I saw that lot of things can be redone using new methods. In-which-line-is-the-move  guesser can be done. And I will use it for jumping later.

Day 117: Readers always are right

On my day 99 post, a reader, Steve, pointed at something that is right. I am using a lot up, down, left and right, so, it is better to create methods for that. I will create them in board class.

public int up(int move){
        int play;
        play=this.getMove(move-this.getBoardSize()+1);
        return play;
    }
    
    public int down(int move){
        int play;
        play=this.getMove(move+this.getBoardSize()+1);
        return play;
    }
    
    public int left(int move){
        int play;
        play=this.getMove(move-1);
        return play;
    }
    
    public int right(int move){
        int play;
        play=this.getMove(move+1);
        return play;
    }