The program GoTools and its computer-generated tsume go database
Thomas Wolf · 1994
In this talk the program GoTools, designed for solving life/death problems in Go, will be described and examples will be given. Remarks are made ffl to the kernel modules for solving problems, ffl to new features which increase the programs utility value like a playingand an exercise modus, ffl to the problem generation capability and the database of over 40.000 generated tsume go problems, ffl to current limitations of the program. Example positions are given in several sections including faulty problems from the literature which GoTools solved correctly. 1 About the program GoTools 1.1 Contents of the problem solving part The core of the program, the problem solving modules have been partially described earlier in [8]. The following are the important ones. ffl A module which provides an ordering of the usefulness of moves on a heuristic basis. If there is one or more winning moves in a given situation then such a move comes currently on average on better than second place in th...