Re: [computer-go] The Zen Program

2009-03-31 Thread Isaac Deutsch
Probably the most original part of Zen is in the playout. I don't think MC simulations must be always fast, so it has a lot of hard-coded Go knowledge. Yamato Hello Are your playouts simple enough so you could publish the exact algorithm in (pseudo) source code? I'm sure many will be

Re: [computer-go] The Zen Program

2009-03-31 Thread Yamato
Are your playouts simple enough so you could publish the exact algorithm in (pseudo) source code? I'm sure many will be interested if you are willing to share it. I need to keep details secret for a while, to retain its commercial value. But I can say that Remi's work was more important than

Re: [computer-go] The Zen Program

2009-03-30 Thread Nick Wedd
Zen has been registered for this Sunday's tournament on KGS. I hope that other programs will compete. Nick (Repeat of message posted here a few days ago follows) The April 2009 KGS computer Go tournament will be next Sunday, April 5th the Asian evening, European morning and American night,

Re: [computer-go] The Zen Program

2009-03-30 Thread Yamato
Thank you for your friendly offer. I think many people on this list will be curious to hear more about what makes Zen such a strong program. Is it similar to Mogo or CrazyStone? Do you use any extra Go knowledge? Which other improvements have you found? Zen is similar to partly MoGo, partly Crazy

Re: [computer-go] The Zen program

2009-03-27 Thread Andy
Yamato, It looks like Zen19 doesn't implement handicap stone komi compensation the same way kgs does for Chinese rules. It's the only reason I can think that it lost this game: http://files.gokgs.com/games/2009/3/27/TaPaHka-Zen19.sgf - Andy, aka yoyoma On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Yamato

Re: [computer-go] The Zen program

2009-03-27 Thread Yamato
Andy wrote: It looks like Zen19 doesn't implement handicap stone komi compensation the same way kgs does for Chinese rules. It's the only reason I can think that it lost this game: http://files.gokgs.com/games/2009/3/27/TaPaHka-Zen19.sgf Thanks for reporting it. You are right, I was not aware

[computer-go] The Zen program

2009-03-26 Thread Martin Mueller
Zen has been getting very impressive results on CGOS. Yamato-san, could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your program? Thanks Martin ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] The Zen program

2009-03-26 Thread Rémi Coulom
Martin Mueller wrote: Zen has been getting very impressive results on CGOS. Yamato-san, could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your program? Thanks Martin Yes, very strong results. Congratulations to Yamato-san for beating Crazy Stone. I am curious about hardware. On

Re: [computer-go] The Zen program

2009-03-26 Thread Yamato
Rémi Coulom wrote: Martin Mueller wrote: Zen has been getting very impressive results on CGOS. Yamato-san, could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your program? Thanks Martin Yes, very strong results. Congratulations to Yamato-san for beating Crazy Stone. I am curious