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Hello. I'm known as Josh Nye in real life. I live in the void known as Western Massachusetts, USA. (I'm not talking about Springfield... the state doesn't end there.) You can find me on KGS as 'enough' most of the time. I think I'm the only person in the county that even knows what Go is. I've been playing for a few months and I'm up to 24k currently. I really find the game entertaining and addicting.

My (mostly empty) homepage is here. [ext] http://www.zerosanity.com/

Q: Has anyone heard of Go mentioned in discussions about Cellular Automata? It seams like Go would/could be classified as such.

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Charles Welcome! Someone tried to start a cellular automata thread recently on rec.games.go: I was one of those being discouraging about that. I don't believe there's much there.


Dieter: In another life, I started writing a Smalltalk program designed to play Go, based on the idea of cellular automata. It never carried far, more because of my laziness than because I'd think it is theoretically doomed. There is a fundamental problem though. The conception of the DNA string is to Go heuristics what a power bar is to a complete meal.


Enough: After reading the rec.games.go thread I realized that Go is in a different class than CA. Player moves in Go are determined by a conscious intelligence and not by a predefined set of rules as in CA.


Matt Noonan: Hi Josh! You didn't state where in WMass you live, but Amherst and Northampton each have an active club, meaning you can play Go there at least 3 nights a week. If you are far enough west that Northampton is a journey, what about Albany? I hope you will come down to the club in Amherst some time -- we even get regulars from Worcester! The URL for the club is [ext] http://www.cookwood.com/personal/go/

Enough: Hi Matt. I'm way over in Adams, MA. An hour+ drive to Albany and an hour+ drive to Springfield. Out in the middle of nowhere. Closest city would be Pittsfield. No Go clubs in Berkshire County as far as I know. =(

Matt Noonan: Well, maybe not yet but there is a professor at Williams College who plays with a few other people and is drumming up interest there (he plans on teaching a mini-course on Go next spring!) His name is Satyan Devadoss and he is affiliated with the math department. I don't want to put his email address here lest it get scooped, but you can find it on the Williams College math department site.

Other than that, I welcome you to join the email list at the website I gave so you can hear about tournaments and other special events, and I wish you good luck finding players :)



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