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Albert L. Zobrist
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The first ever program to play whole Go games was that of Albert L. Zobrist (USA). It was written as part of a PhD thesis on pattern recognition?. The program divided the game into four phases: fuseki, extension towards tengen, defence and attack of loosely staked out territory, and yose. Each phase had a separate set of match patterns to find the most appropriate moves. Zobrist's program played a game against George Cowan (and won by 7 points) on the 17th of November 1968. Zobrist introduced the idea of using an influence function to segment the board into black and white territory, too. Bibliography:
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