Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-24 Thread Christoph Birk
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Zach Wegner wrote: White can simply pass if black plays in the center. Black passing in response would be an instant loss (provided komi is 0 of course). Quite the opposite. If white passes after black's first move since all empty points just touch black, so black get the

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-24 Thread Zach Wegner
OK, my mistake, I'm rather clueless about scoring methods. And even if it was just a pure stone count, I still should have written komi 1. Zach ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

[computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-23 Thread Ingo Althöfer
Don wrote: It could be a matter of style as you say, not a matter of strength. Right. My main questions is whether it's been established as true that Zen really plays poorly and Many Faces is brilliant against mirror go. Or does it just seem that way based on casual observation? Right.

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-23 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 23/07/2009 à 09:21, Ingo Althöfer a écrit : .../... Therefore I really like the test series by Yamato (with 30 out of 100 wins for Zen against mirror strategy) Can we assume that both programs are approximately equal or is MFGO clearly stronger (or visa versa?) In normal go (on

[computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-23 Thread Ingo Althöfer
Alain Baeckeroot wrote: gnugo --mirror will try to play mirror go :) How does it do this? Interesting might be a setting like the following: When gnu-mi (short for gnugo --mirror) has to make a move in a position, the following procedure is run: (a) Is the position a mirror position and is

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-23 Thread Gunnar Farnebäck
Ingo Althöfer wrote: Alain Baeckeroot wrote: gnugo --mirror will try to play mirror go :) How does it do this? In the simplest possible way. If there is a legal move obtaining mirror symmetry it will play it, otherwise revert to normal move generation. It does not worry about komi, nor

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-23 Thread Don Dailey
How is the center point handled?I assume it plays to the center point as black and with either color it just ignores the center point in the symetry calculations, right? So if it's playing white, symmetry is broken as soon as white plays to the center because it cannot play a move that

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-23 Thread Zach Wegner
2009/7/23 Don Dailey dailey@gmail.com: How is the center point handled?    I assume it plays to the center point as black and with either color it just ignores the center point in the symetry calculations, right?      So if it's playing white, symmetry is broken as soon as white plays to

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-22 Thread Andrés Domínguez
2009/7/20 Stefan Kaitschick stefan.kaitsch...@hamburg.de: Ofcourse they can know. They just have to check for it. Those programs that do well against mirror go probably all do check for it. I think a strong MCTS could find the lines that make mirror Go useless. Maybe MF plays lines that brake

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-22 Thread Don Dailey
2009/7/22 Andrés Domínguez andres...@gmail.com 2009/7/20 Stefan Kaitschick stefan.kaitsch...@hamburg.de: Ofcourse they can know. They just have to check for it. Those programs that do well against mirror go probably all do check for it. I think a strong MCTS could find the lines that make

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-22 Thread Darren Cook
But go programs do not KNOW they are playing mirror go and would have no motivation to specifically set this up. So how is it that some equally strong programs have no problem while others do? I wondered if some programs prefer contact moves more? In which case the chances of them attaching

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-22 Thread Don Dailey
It could be a matter of style as you say, not a matter of strength.My main questions is whether it's been established as true that Zen really plays poorly and Many Faces is brilliant against mirror go.Or does it just seem that way based on casual observation? The only reason I make an

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-22 Thread Yamato
Don Dailey wrote: It could be a matter of style as you say, not a matter of strength.My main questions is whether it's been established as true that Zen really plays poorly and Many Faces is brilliant against mirror go.Or does it just seem that way based on casual observation? The only

[computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-20 Thread Ingo Althöfer
Don Dailey wrote: I thought you played mirror go as white? Or with Black, starting in center. It is possible when komi is only 0.5 and chinese scoring. I'm not a go player, but it seems like it would be hard to win if you had the white pieces with 0.5 komi and black mirrored everything you

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-20 Thread Don Dailey
Again, I don't understand go so well, but how do you win against mirror go? It seems you must either take advantage somehow of the non-symmetry of the center point OR take advantage of the fact that a capture could break the symmetry. Is that right? If it's by capture it seems that since you

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-20 Thread Seo Sanghyeon
2009/7/20 Don Dailey dailey@gmail.com: Again, I don't understand go so well, but how do you win against mirror go? You setup two ladders that collide. -- Seo Sanghyeon ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-20 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 20/07/2009 à 15:34, Don Dailey a écrit : Again, I don't understand go so well, but how do you win against mirror go? It seems you must either take advantage somehow of the non-symmetry of the center point OR take advantage of the fact that a capture could break the symmetry. Is that

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-20 Thread Don Dailey
Ok, so I am right about this, you take advantage of the asymmetry of captures. But go programs do not KNOW they are playing mirror go and would have no motivation to specifically set this up. So how is it that some equally strong programs have no problem while others do? - Don On Mon, Jul

Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-20 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 20/07/2009 à 16:01, Don Dailey a écrit : Ok, so I am right about this, you take advantage of the asymmetry of captures. But go programs do not KNOW they are playing mirror go GNU Go knows if the game is mirror-go or not, and decide to break it when a sufficent number of moves is reached

RE: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen

2009-07-20 Thread David Fotland
Many Faces does not test for mirror go. From: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org [mailto:computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Kaitschick Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 2:26 PM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: Mirror Go against Zen Ofcourse they can know