Re: [computer-go] correspondence or turn-based servers

2007-06-28 Thread terry mcintyre
Some Go players do use computers do analyze correspondence games. Computer Go play in general is nowhere close to dan-level play, but a computer program can read out smaller tactical problems with a very high level of accuracy. Does such play have anything to do with the real game of chess or

Re: [computer-go] scalability study - final results

2007-06-28 Thread Don Dailey
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:38 +0100, Jacques BasaldĂșa wrote: I am afraid today a postal chess game is a computer analyst against another computer analyst. An interesting challenge, no doubt, but that has little to do with chess. I don't agree with this. I have heard it can improve your real

[computer-go] July KGS Computer Go tournament: small boards, fast

2007-06-28 Thread Nick Wedd
The July 2007 KGS computer Go tournament will be on the second Sunday in July, July 8th, in the Asian night, European afternoon and American morning, starting at 16:00 UTC (GMT) and ending soon after 18:30 UTC (GMT). The Formal division will be an 8-round Swiss with 9x9 boards and 8 minutes

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19

2007-06-28 Thread Don Dailey
I think it's a server bug. It doesn't know what to do when only 2 program are playing. I restarted the gnugo anchor. - Don On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 22:37 -0400, Don Dailey wrote: It looked somehow wedged, but I restarted it. I see only 2 programs playing on it, both myCtest version. -

Re: [computer-go] MPI vs. threads

2007-06-28 Thread David Doshay
On 28, Jun 2007, at 8:44 PM, Jason House wrote: Darren Cook wrote: Can MPI be as quick as threads on a 2- or 4-core single machine? no, but I think you are worried about something that is such a a small percentage of compute time that I doubt that it is significant for a Go program. I