GNU Go Documentation: Table of Contents

1. Introduction
- 1.1 About GNU Go and this Manual
- 1.2 Copyrights
- 1.3 Authors
- 1.4 Thanks
- 1.5 The GNU Go Task List
2. Installation
- 2.1 GNU/Linux and Unix
- 2.2 Configure Options
- 2.3 Compiling GNU Go on Microsoft platforms
- 2.4 Macintosh
3. Using GNU Go
- 3.1 Getting Documentation
- 3.2 Running GNU Go via CGoban
- 3.3 Other Clients
- 3.4 Ascii Interface
- 3.5 GNU Go mode in Emacs
- 3.6 The Go Modem Protocol and Go Text Protocol
- 3.7 Computer Go Tournaments
- 3.8 Smart Game Format
- 3.9 Invoking GNU Go: Command line options
4. GNU Go engine overview
- 4.1 Gathering Information
- 4.2 Move Generators
- 4.3 Move Valuation
- 4.4 Detailed Sequence of Events
- 4.5 Roadmap
  - 4.5.1 Files in `engine/'
  - 4.5.2 Files in `patterns/'
- 4.6 Coding styles and conventions
- 4.7 Navigating the Source
5. Analyzing GNU Go's moves
- 5.1 Interpreting Traces
- 5.2 The Output File
- 5.3 Checking the reading code
- 5.4 Checking the Owl Code
- 5.5 GTP and GDB techniques
- 5.6 Debugging on a Graphical Board
- 5.7 Scoring the game
- 5.8 Colored Display
6. Move generation
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Generation of move reasons
- 6.3 Detailed Descriptions of various Move Reasons
- 6.4 Valuation of suggested moves
- 6.5 End Game
7. Worms and Dragons
- 7.1 Worms
- 7.2 Amalgamation
- 7.3 Connection
- 7.4 Half Eyes and False Eyes
- 7.5 Dragons
- 7.6 Colored Dragon Display
8. Eyes and Half Eyes
- 8.1 Local games
- 8.2 Eye spaces
- 8.3 The eyespace as local game
- 8.4 An example
- 8.5 Graphs
- 8.6 Eye shape analysis
- 8.7 Eye Local Game Values
- 8.8 Topology of Half Eyes and False Eyes
- 8.9 Eye Topology with Ko
- 8.10 False Margins
- 8.11 Functions in `optics.c'
9. The Pattern Code
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 Pattern Attributes
  - 9.2.1 Constraint Pattern Attributes
  - 9.2.2 Action Attributes
- 9.3 Pattern Attributes
- 9.4 Helper Functions
- 9.5 Autohelpers and Constraints
- 9.6 Autohelper Actions
- 9.7 Autohelper Functions
- 9.8 Attack and Defense Database
- 9.9 The Connections Database
- 9.10 Connections Functions
- 9.11 Tuning the Pattern databases
- 9.12 Implementation
- 9.13 Symmetry and transformations
- 9.14 Implementation Details
- 9.15 The "Grid" Optimization
- 9.16 The Joseki Compiler
- 9.17 Ladders in Joseki
- 9.18 Corner Matcher
- 9.19 Emacs Mode for Editing Patterns
10. The DFA pattern matcher
- 10.1 Introduction to the DFA
- 10.2 What is a DFA
- 10.3 Pattern matching with DFA
- 10.4 Building the DFA
- 10.5 Incremental Algorithm
- 10.6 Some DFA Optimizations
11. Tactical reading
- 11.1 Reading Basics
- 11.2 Hashing of Positions
- 11.3 Persistent Reading Cache
- 11.4 Ko Handling
- 11.5 A Ko Example
- 11.6 Another Ko Example
- 11.7 Alternate Komaster Schemes
  - 11.7.1 Essentially the 2.7.232 scheme.
  - 11.7.2 Revised 2.7.232 version
- 11.8 Superstrings
- 11.9 Debugging the reading code
- 11.10 Connection Reading
12. Pattern Based Reading
- 12.1 The Owl Code
- 12.2 Combination reading
13. Influence Function
- 13.1 Conceptual Outline of Influence
- 13.2 Territory, Moyo and Area
- 13.3 Where influence gets used in the engine
- 13.4 Influence and Territory
- 13.5 Details of the Territory Valuation
- 13.6 The Core of the Influence Function
- 13.7 The Influence Algorithm
- 13.8 Permeability
- 13.9 Escape
- 13.10 Break Ins
- 13.11 Surrounded Dragons
- 13.12 Patterns used by the Influence module
- 13.13 Colored display and debugging of influence
- 13.14 Influence Tuning with view.pike
14. Another approach to Moyos : Bouzy's 5/21 algorithm
- 14.1 Moyo history
- 14.2 Bouzy's 5/21 algorithm
15. The Board Library
- 15.1 Board Data structures
- 15.2 The Board Array
- 15.3 Incremental Board data structures
- 15.4 Some Board Functions
16. Handling SGF trees in memory
- 16.1 The SGFTree datatype
17. Application Programmers Interface to GNU Go
- 17.1 How to use the engine in your own program: getting started
- 17.2 Basic Data Structures in the Engine
- 17.3 The board_state struct
- 17.4 Functions which manipulate a Position
- 17.5 Game handling
  - 17.5.1 Functions which manipulate a Gameinfo
18. Utility Functions
- 18.1 General Utilities
- 18.2 Print Utilities
- 18.3 Board Utilities
- 18.4 Utilities from `engine/influence.c'
19. The Go Text Protocol
- 19.1 The Go Text Protocol
- 19.2 Running GNU Go in GTP mode
- 19.3 GTP applications
- 19.4 The Metamachine
  - 19.4.1 The Standalone Metamachine
  - 19.4.2 GNU Go as a Metamachine
- 19.5 Adding new GTP commands
- 19.6 GTP command reference
20. Regression testing
- 20.1 Regression testing in GNU Go
- 20.2 Test suites
- 20.3 Running the Regression Tests
- 20.4 Running regress.pike
- 20.5 Viewing tests with Emacs
- 20.6 HTML Regression Views
  - 20.6.1 Setting up the HTML regression Views
A. Copying
- A.1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Preamble
- How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
- A.2 GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE
- ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
- A.3 The Go Text Protocol License
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