Totally missed EGC 2009

I have totally forgotten about European Go Congress 2009. And after a quick look at the starting field, so have all the Swedish players. I guess everybody in Sweden put to much into arranging the event last year, so they stay home this year. Or maybe they got stuck in the coffee shops. After a closer look at the standings there are only 3 Swedish players. You can find the current standings here. And as of today 7 out of 10 games have been played.

Also I see that there is no computer go tournament this year. If there had been one I would have noticed on GNU Go mailing list that they where looking for someone to operate the program.

Now the tension grows ...

... as EGC 2008 is coming close to the end. 8 rounds out of 10 in the main tournament has been played. And not so surprising Catalin Taranu from Romania is the number one European player at number 6. Top Swedish player is Girlwing at number 20.

Yesterday computer go tournament did not end so well for GNU Go. I wonder why. I have not looked at the games. Maybe somebody will put some regression test from the games.

At the moment I very much feel like programming on some go program. I actually would like to get my own program up to speed. But it would also be interesting to get some good things into GNU Go. I'm on the mailing list and what I see the activity is low. But the activity list for next minor release, 3.8, is long.