Re: [Computer-go] MiniGo open sourced

2018-01-30 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 30-01-18 20:59, Álvaro Begué wrote: > Chrilly Donninger's quote was probably mostly true in the 90s, but > it's now obsolete. That intellectual protectionism was motivated by > the potential economic profit of having a strong engine. It probably > slowed down computer chess for decades, until

Re: [Computer-go] MiniGo open sourced

2018-01-30 Thread Álvaro Begué
Chrilly Donninger's quote was probably mostly true in the 90s, but it's now obsolete. That intellectual protectionism was motivated by the potential economic profit of having a strong engine. It probably slowed down computer chess for decades, until the advent of strong open-source programs.

Re: [Computer-go] MiniGo open sourced

2018-01-30 Thread Ingo Althöfer
Hi, GCP wrote: > ... > > Of course, in the end, strength is the best way to tell that your > > implementation is correct :) > > In other words, do not take "correct" as necessarily meaning "matching > the published research". Chrilly Donnninger, one of the computer chess gurus in the 1990's

Re: [Computer-go] MiniGo open sourced

2018-01-30 Thread Ingo Althöfer
Dear Brian, thank you for your posting and for publishing the MiniGo code.   > I'm happy to announce MiniGo is now open source. > https://github.com/tensorflow/minigo > > We're ... aiming for a correct, very readable implementation > of the AlphaGoZero algorithm and demonstration of Google >