Kestrel

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Kestrel is my handle on KGS.

I did get to about 18k at one point last year, but my current passion is writing a Go Bot which plays on KGS. I've called it Dumbbot as it's totally awful at the moment. It has been quite popular in the past as a punch-bag and has triggered a range of other Bots (mostly GNUGo clones) like simplebot and daftbot which cater for the beginner/low stress market ;-)

Originally written in C++ as an exercise in OO design, Dumbbot is now in far less structured C that at least allows me to cross reference pointers and stuff ;-)

I plan to set up a 'BadBots' ladder for other from-scratch (i.e. not GNUGo clones) programs that may currently be below the 30k KGS limit.


This is a copy of the living page "Kestrel" at Sensei's Library.
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