Achor 'Gnugo-3.7.10-a3' loses a lot on time.
Christoph
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This is from the AGA newsletter:
COMPUTER BEATS PRO AT U.S. GO CONGRESS: In a historic achievement, the MoGo
computer program defeated Myungwan
Kim 8P (l) Thursday afternoon by 1.5 points in a 9-stone game billed as
“Humanity’s Last Stand?” “It played really well,” said Kim, who
estimated MoGo’s
I enjoyed watching this game. Having trouble with KGS at the moment, or I'd
send a game record.
Having more time makes a very marked improvement in the quality of play, to a
degree which surprised me. The first two games, at 10 and something between 10
and 15 minutes ( Mogo thought it only had
We had a bit of discussion w/ the Mogo team after the match. ( I am writing
this from the US Go Congress in Portlland, OR ), and Olivier said that Mogo no
longer uses a book; it was found to be ineffective in their research. I am
wondering, of course, if a book would be more effective now that
To answer one other question: we were told that Mogo scales linearly. The
supercomputer has a very high-bandwidth interconnect. The Mogo team was unable
to release more architectural details at this time.
To reiterate on another question, from what the team said, no book, no joseki,
just raw
Well done, Mogo team !
terry mcintyre wrote:
moves,” like those in the lower right-hand corner, where Moyogo took
Typo :-)
Rémi
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... no book, no joseki,...Mogo generated joseki from whole cloth.
...
seemed to me that, as Mogo was given more time, its opening and
middlegame play was markedly better.
If it is basically reinventing opening theory from scratch each time
then that makes sense. (Though I suppose there is
I watched all the games, and I must say, mogo performed really badly
at the blitz games, and quite a bit better at the 1-hour game. I'd still
take any claims of dan level play with lots of salt.
My take-away from watching the match is that blitz performance wasn't
at all representative. A
