Hi,
... I have just been told by a colleague that Edouard Rodrigues
solved hex mathematically. I was very surprised because I had
never heard about it.
The web site with the proof and optimal strategy is there:
http://jeudhex.com/?page_id=17
as I wrote before the claim by Edouard
Hi,
the exhibition game of CrazyManja was quite interesting. They played against
Guo Juan (5p). Wwe got 3 handicap stones, and lost convincingly.
I will present the sgf on Saturday.
Cheers, Ingo.
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2015 um 13:11 Uhr
Von: Petr Baudis pa...@ucw.cz
An:
Hi Rèmi,
gorget it - no serious work.
Ingo.
Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Juli 2015 um 15:38 Uhr
Von: Rémi Coulom remi.cou...@free.fr
An: computer-go@computer-go.org
Betreff: [Computer-go] Hex is solved ?
Hi,
I have just been told by a colleague that Edouard Rodrigues solved hex
Hi, sounds very interesting.
will teams with more than one human be allowed?
(I am thinking of two humans assisted by one bot.)
Cheers, Ingo.
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. Juli 2015 um 01:22 Uhr
Von: SR G gameso...@gmail.com
An: computer-go@computer-go.org
Betreff: [Computer-go] OGS Alan
Hello Xavier,
Xavier Combelle xavier.combe...@gmail.com
I wonder what was the algorithm for your first bot. Alpha Beta ?
good question, and more or less easy to answer.
My first Clobber bot was simply within the Zilliions-of-Games engine.
I only programmed the rules file for this simple game.
Hi,
Igor Polyakov weiqiprogramm...@gmail.com:
Even strong engines like Fuego will give wrong sequences in yose.
And even very strong programs - like CrazyStone - sometimes have
problem in evaluating smooth endgames correctly. I will present
an example of this (in a game against Stefan
Hello Josef, hello all,
Josef Moudrik j.moud...@gmail.com
... As far as I know, combinatorial game theory is not used
in modern Go engines, despite its nice theoretical properties.
Let me tell you an anecdote from CGT history: In Februar 2002, there
was a week-long conference on Algorithmic
Ingo.
I noticed that someone (maybe Hideki?) entered the game results with
some game records on the ICGA web site:
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/event.php?id=45
Thanks for this effort, and congratulations to Zen.
Rémi
On 07/02/2015 11:50 PM, Ingo Althöfer wrote:
Hello
Hello,
the Go competitions in the Computer Olympiad 2015 are over.
In the 19x19 competition seven bots started.
Winner became favorite Zen, ahead of Nomitan and Abakus.
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=290
Abakus and Nomitan each had 5 out of 7.
Abakus won the playoff. So
Hello,
currently the Computer Olympiad 2015 and Computer Chess World
Championships are underway in Leiden (NL).
In Go the competitions on small boards are completed.
On 9x9 and 13x13 favorite Zen (Japan) took Gold.
Abakus (Paderborn, Germany) collected Silver on 9x9 and Bronze on 13x13.
Hi Petr, hi all,
(Just to clarify - the Computer Go tournament is on a Wednesday,
which is a free day without official tournament game, so participants
wouldn't miss that.
I will be in Liberec for two days:
on Wednesday for watching the bot tournament,
on Thursday for the Go in Science
Hi Ray,
an emergency proposal for the case that you will not find a
playing partner. If you have a torus with say 19x19 cells (and
no holes), you may set komi = 0.5 and play mirror go. So, the
artificial partner begins with an arbitrary first move x,
and then mirrors the moves of your bot
Hi all,
I would like to see some bot-vs-bot games on 37x37 or 39x39.
Von: Erik van der Werf erikvanderw...@gmail.com
Personally I think 39x39 is too big. Also, there is a problem with GTP;
the protocol does not support boards over 25x25.
Some years ago, Gian-Carlo Pascutto had provided
Hi Darren,
wow, thanks for the interesting news.
On
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/challenge/2015/showGames.cgi
the games can be replayed.
bot_sharp won all three games of round 1 and also
all three games of round 2.
In round 3 the bot beat the medium strength human,
but lost to the weak one
Sorry for wrong format in my posting.
Here it is in txt-style.
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Hello,
I had just looked at the ratings of the players at the start of
the match:
2623 Browni...
2262 Harvetsnow
2181 ChessandGo
My term weak was meant only relative to the
Hello,
I had just looked at the ratings of the players at the start of
the match:
2623 Browni...
2262 Harvetsnow
2181 ChessandGo
My term waek was meant only relative to the two other humans
in the competition. Of course, I would likely have no chance
against all three.
Regards,
Hi Hiroshi,
thank you for keeping us informed!
In particular nice to see that there is fresh
computer go blood in Taiwan.
Ingo.
Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. März 2015 um 08:39 Uhr
Von: Hiroshi Yamashita y...@bd.mbn.or.jp
An: computer-go@computer-go.org
Betreff: Re: [Computer-go] UEC Cup
UEC
HI,
did someone think about the question for which other games
these Deep Convolutional NN may be helpful?
For instance, from the portfolio of turnbased server
littlegolem.net ?
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Dear Detlef,
Todays bot tournament nicego19n (oakfoam) played with a CNN for move
prediction.
congratulation to the performance of your bot, and thanks for
letting us know.
Will you let NiceGo play in the KGS computer room against humans
to see how it performs?
Thumbs pressed, Ingo.
Hi all,
back in 1998, Martin Mueller had beaten the traditional
(non-Monte-Carlo) Many Faces of Go despite of giving
28 handicap stones on the 19x19 board.
The first bot that is able to achieve the same (before
the end of year 2020), will get 1,000 Euro from my
pocket. For details see:
Sorry for the typo.
back in 1998, Martin Mueller had beaten the traditional
(non-Monte-Carlo) Many Faces of Go despite of giving
28 handicap stones on the 19x19 board.
Of course, Martin won at handicap 29.
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Hi all,
it seems computer-go faces exciting times again.
What a wonderful world.
Switch to Kassandra mode: Several years ago (ca 2008)
Sylvain Gelly had his Ph.D. thesis and in it a section
on the quality of random game generators. One of his
Hallo Robert,
In total: Changing the random move generator typically will
change the playing behaviour. However, it can not be well
predicted if this change will be to the better or to the
worse.
Is this prediction theoretically impossible (why, under exactly which
presuppositions)
Hi HIroshi,
thanks for giving the link.
One question: Is there a place where I can find sgf
of the(some test games against Fuego1.1 and GnuGo?
I want to understand the playing style of this CNN approach.
Ingo.
Gesendet: Montag, 15. Dezember 2014 um 00:53 Uhr
Von: Hiroshi Yamashita
Hello,
it is fantastic that mails from the list are distributed again - thanks to Petr
and to anybody else who helped with this.
One question: Is it somehow ensured that the mails will be properly archived?
At least they are not shown in the old archive list:
Hi Petr,
thanks for making the announcement of the conference public.
Just one immediate question: The EGC is from July 25 to August 08.
Typically Computer Go activities are on Wednesday in the second week
(which is August 05).
According to your text, the conference is in the first week (July
Hello Don,
several very good points by you!
Does anyone have data based on several thousands games
that attempts to measure the effect of dynamic komi?
I would like to see results that are statistically meaningful.
I had eight handplayed (4 + 4) games on 19x19 with very
high
Don Dailey wrote:
Ingo Althofer:
I had eight handplayed (4 + 4) games on 19x19 with very
high handicap, where the version with dynamic komi (rule 42)
gained a 3-1 score and the version with static komi
performed 0-4 versus the same opponent. This is evidence
in the 95% region that the
Hello Petr,
thx for the diagram.
A few question for clarification:
Does RAVE mean pachi-with-RAVE?
Does RAVE-linkomi mean pachi-with-RAVE-linkomi?
Did all three bots (GNUGO, RAVE, RAVE-linkomi) have the same (weak)
opponent in these experiments?
Who was this common opponent?
Was this on 19x19?
Hello Dave,
I'm not a proper statistician, but I believe there's a
crucial second step that's missing in your analysis of
significance.
You are right in the sense that I was not precise enough
in my statement. Here comes a new attempt.
I have three players A, B, C.
A plays four times
Petr Baudis asked:
I'm confused. What do you mean by This is evidence in the 95%
region? 3/4 has confidence interval from 19% to 99%, 0/4 has confidence
interval from 0% to 60%.
Assume for simplicity that both A and B have a 50 % winning chance
for each single game against C.
The cases with
Darren Cook wrote:
This (if I've understood correctly) is what I thought the dynamic komi
idea was, i.e.:
Aim to be winning 60% of simulations.
If winrate is over 60, increase the artificial komi (if black;
decrease it if white) on the next move (*).
If winrate is below 40, then do
Hello,
I informed the German go scene that there is (some) progress
at KGS bots with dynamic komi. Based on this, a friend told me
that they would have an open afternoon for go beginners in the
middle of March - and they expect many newbies with strengths
between 17k and 30k. His question is if a
Hi Nick,
... There are details at
http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=495.
1, and counting.
Ingo ;-)
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Terry McIntyre wrote:
... My pet peeve is the KGS score estimator, which is often wildly
wrong
As explained by others a strong SE for ALL positions is equivalent
to a strong program.
Instead one might ask for appropriate partial SE:
in many positions the partial SE gives an estimates;
in
Hello,
Petr Baudis wrote:
http://www.egc2010.fi/schedule.php
The Computer Go label in the schedule is quite ambiguous, it is not
clear what does it mean...
Probably it is meant dynamically:
a lot is possible, nothing is forced.
ECG2008 in Sweden had full-fledged tournaments at 9x9 and
Nick Wedd wrote:
I also owe two beers to the GNU Go team.
Hmm. Promising one beer or two beers to a
potentially large GNU team seems problematic:
Shall all the gnuguys drink from the same glas?
In a similar way it might be problematic to give a
free beer for a bot on a multi-core PC:
Should
Hello altogether,
the European Go Congress in 2010
will take place in Finland, in Tampere,
from July 24 to August 07.
There is also the intention to have a special computer
go tournament within the congress, on Wednesday, August 04.
http://www.egc2010.fi/schedule.php
Perhaps, also some
Dear Nick,
thanks for the report, and more generally thanks
for initiating and organizing all these interesting
KGS bot tournaments.
One wish I have:
Often you give some important web address, followed
directly (without blank) by a komma or a fullstop.
When I click at such an address (under
Hello,
at a public event (during an exhibition on Claude
Shannon; in Nixdorf museum in Paderborn) I want to
arrange an exhibition game human vs computer go on
13x13 board. (Thinking time about 45 minutes for both
sides.)
Does someone here know about human vs computer games
on 13x13?
The human
Hi Nick,
... So please, anyone who is
interested, make your suggestions now.
I have a really exotic proposal:
what about one pair-go bot tournament in 2010 ?
A pair consists of two bots A and B from different programmers.
In a game, a pair takes one side (Black or White),
and A and B are
Hi all,
Alain Baeckeroot wrote:
As a physicist i like to experiment first, and think later,
to understand what happened, which obviously was not foreseen ;-)
This attitude I like very much, being an experimental mathematician.
I believe it will reveal some hidden aspect of the stronger
Hello all, especially hello Nick,
http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/future.html
are there already plans for KGS bot tournaments
in 2010?
Cheers, Ingo.
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The old year 2009 ended with a true cracker onm KGS:
In the computer room Mosa, a Japanese player with
rank 5-dan, had five games with Zen running on a
mini-cluster (4x4 cernels).
One of these games was won by Zen, at chinese rules,
komi 7.5 and handicap 0. Zen was black in that game.
Thinking
Hello Hideki,
Ingo, now Zengg19 is running in Computer Go room as a rank-free bot
with 30 minutes sd. It's running on a (mini) cluster of four Intel
quad-core handcraft computers.
Thank you for that Christmas surprise.
And Cluster-Zen's performance on cgos is impressive, indeed:
Hi Hideki,
thanks for reporting results of the UEC CPU.
I see that a participant KCC Igo is listed.
* Is this program or its programming team related to
the KCC program which had plagiarized Handtalk some years ago?
* If so, have the organizers of the UEC Cup made any attempts
to find out
Hideki Kato wrote:
I'm now testing a cluster version of Zen (Zengg-4x4c-tst), developed
by a joint project with Yamato, on cgos 19x19. It wons, however, all
games (except first one with timeout due to a bug). Running more
strong programs are very appreciated.
Hideki, thx for your
Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
I think this game [go with Hahn scoring; IA] is clearly more
difficult than a binary win/loss game.
That is one of the possible question, and I also vote for yes,
as normal go is simply a Hahn-Go veriant with coarsened evaluation.
Even more interesting might be this
Hideki replied:
Do I have a Christmas wish for free already?
It is: Let the cluster also run on KGS - against the humans.
I'd like to do so but it's not allowed to connect the
cluster to the Internet, sigh.
Hmm. As CGOS is also Internet, it seems that Zen-author
does not allow you to
Hi Hideki,
Is Zen-Author reading here?
Maybe, he can rethink about the possibility.
He is sleeping now 'cause it's 5:30 am in Japan :).
Ok, let him his good sleep.
I want Cluster-Zen for Christmas, Cluster-Zen-for Christmas,
Cluster-Zen for Christmas, please, please, please, please...
Alain Baeckeroot wrote:
A Go tounrmaent with Hahn system has been retransmeted
see ... http://www.suomigo.net/wiki/HahnSystem
Thanks for the interesting stuff and the links.
From the link HahnSystem:
Winning By 0.5-10 gets 60 points
Winning by 10.5-20 gets 70 points
Winning
Hello,
the games of the Havannah tournament in Jena
can be replayed at
http://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/arena/havannah/443-jena-2009-tournament
Cheers, ingo.
PS: Both bots involved (DeepFork by Thomas Reinhardt
and Gambler by Richard Pijl) used special types of
MCTS.
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Last Friday (Nov 13, 2009), there was a Long Night
of Sciences in Jena. My group was involved, under
the title Games - with mathematics or without.
Amongst others, we organized a mixed tournament
in Havannah (on boards of size 6):
two top humans competed with the to best computer programs.
We
Hi Robert,
robert jasiek wrote:
Stefan Kaitschick wrote:
One day, when MCTS becomes more refined, bots will stop overestimating
the value of influence.
Why should they? Because most human players are overestimating
the value of early territory?
Interesting comment...
So, do you believe
Robert Jasiek wrote:
...
PS: Can you give us a comment on Fuego's influence-oriented Joseki's
in the KGS bot tournament on Sunday ?
I am not sure which game that is; please send it to me / the
list as SGF inline or attachment. Or do you mean all games of
Fuego played on 11-08?
Fuego
Hello Robert,
thanks for the detailed comments. I think,
there are many readers/actors here who appreciate them.
Here is the team of Fuego (status from Pamplona, May 2009):
Markus Enzenbergerengine programmer
Martin Müller engine programmer
Broderick Arneson engine programmer
Hello Robert,
thanks for your detailed comments. I think,
many readers/actors here appreciate them.
At one point you wrote:
... I do not mention some obvious mistakes.
Are they later in the game(s), or also
some in the openings? Not all here are really
go experts; so it would be helpful for
Robert Jasiek wrote:
... Ask those that can distinguish
sum-style from obvious mistakes.
Terry McIntyre wrote:
Robert,
Your post is the first usage of sum-style that I have seen
I found one earlier mentioning of sum-style, by Robert
in a godiscussion in Febrary 2009. Look at
Brian Sheppard complained:
Man, I just don't live in the right location. First Paris, and now
Japan. Can't a position open in, say, Boston? :-(
There was something rather recently, by Dr. Eric Baum
if I remember correctly.
Ingo.
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In the year 2000 I bought the book
EZ-GO: Oriental Strategy in a Nutshell,
by Bruce and Sue Wilcox. Ki Press; 1996.
I can only recommend it for the many fresh ideas.
A few days ago I found time again to read in it.
This time I was impressed by Bruce Wilcox's strange
opening Great Wall, where
Olivier Teytaud wrote:
I hope you did not consider us as a strong entrant; this is
the first participation of our new bot and main parts change
everyday (even this morning :-) ).
Independently of you own view I consider MoGoBot to be a very
interesting participant in the tournament.
In my
In my eyes, besides MoGo, MFoG, and Zen
only Fuego and Valkyria are missing from the top league.
Olivier Teytaud wrote:
There's CrazyStone at least, also.
Yes, but that was a year ago or longer.
Another story, concerning good old Leela:
When I bought Leela 3.15 / 3.16 in October 2008, I took
After many (hand-operated) games with dynamic komi
in high handicap situations I have - amongst other
things - found the following for board size 19x19,
when the side who has to catch up uses dynamic komi:
(i) At handicap 7 the dynamic komi seems to give at
least one additional level (one stone)
Yesterday and today there have been three
exhibiton games of Chun-Hsun Chou (9p),
on 19x19 board against three different bots
(Zen, Many Faces of Go, Mogo). In all these
games the bots got 7 handicap stones.
Chou won all the games convincingly.
Looking at Nick Wedd's table
Nick Wedd wrote:
According to http://oase.nutn.edu.tw/FUZZ_IEEE_2009/result.htm
Chun-Hsun Chou played only two 19x19 games, the one against Mogo
was by Shen-Su Chang 6d.
The website you cie does not mention all games played.
Chou (adhoc) played one more game on 19x19 against MoGoBot1,
at
Does someone here know the exact starting times (in common
time zones) for the 19x19 exhibition games
* Chou(9p) vs MFoG (Fr, August 21)
* Chou(9p) vs Zen (Sa, August 22)
?
Thx in advance.
Ingo.
PS: I will reply later to the interesting postings by Brian Sheppard
and Weston Markham on
Forthcoming human-vs-computer games in go:
http://www.althofer.de/ieee-go-0.jpg
http://www.althofer.de/ieee-go-1.jpg
http://www.althofer.de/ieee-go-2.jpg
http://www.althofer.de/ieee-go-3.jpg
http://oase.nutn.edu.tw/FUZZ_IEEE_2009/result.htm
Ingo.
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Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 07:27:00AM -0700, terry mcintyre wrote:
Consider the game when computer is black, with 7 stones against a very
strong human opponent.
...
Didn't this game actually happen? Didn't MoGo *beat* a pro
with 7 stones?
It was long ago: in
Don wrote:
But how do you create the required tension in a way that
produces a program that plays the game better?
At least in high handicap go on 19x19 (with the dynamic bot being
the stronger player) it seems to work when the bot is kept
in some 35-45 % corridor, as long as it is clearly
In the last few weeks I have experimented a lot with dynamic
komi in games with high handicap. Especially, I used the
really nice commercial program Many Faces of Go (version 12.013)
with its Monte Carlo level (about 2 kyu on 19x19 board) and
its traditional 18-kyu level as the opponent.
At
This morning the exhibition games between O Meien (9p) and Zen
were played on KGS.
On 19x19, at handicap 7, O Meien won by resignation.
On 9x9, 3 games were played. In all of them Zen had Black.
Two of the games were at komi 3.5 - and won by O Meien.
One was at komi 2.5 - and won by Zen.
sgf
Terry McI announced:
On Friday, August 8th, at 3 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Myungwan Kim 8P will play against Many Faces of Go.
One question, do you mean
Friday, August 7th, 2009
or
Saturday, August 8th, 2009
or another year ;-)
Thanks for informing us.
Cheers, Ingo.
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Yamato San wrote:
The match of O Meien 9p vs Zen will be held on next Monday via KGS.
Schedule (JST)
Date: August 10
Time: 14:10
Handicap
9x9: Zen is black, with 0.5 or 3.5 komi (?)
19x19: Zen is black, with 7 handicap stones.
Thanks for the information.
* How many games will be
Terry wrote:
I'm trying to set up a demo game between Myungwan Kim and Mogo
at the Go Congress in Fairfax, VA
Or, what do you think about the following idea:
Make it a pair-go event with 2 strong humans
versus 2 strong go programs (+ handicap).
For the computer team, for instance the two best
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.
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
David Fotland wrote in a related thread:
Many Faces does not test for mirror go.
But it is able to produce really great cinema
against mirror go.
Today I ran a test game with MF 12.013.
Board size 13
Chinese Rules, but with komi=-45.5 (in words minus fourtyfive-dot-five).
Many Faces as White
On KGS, some humans players (yakuman, finnes)
now have started to play mirror go against Zen19
(Humans as Black; komi=+0.5).
So far Zen19 seems to react helpless.
In contrast, commercial versions of ManyFaces
and Leela seem to have (almost) no problems with
mirror go.
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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
Included is the sgf of a win of Many Faces,
when playing on 9x9 board with White, at komi 0.5,
with opponent making mirror go all the time.
Ingo.
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manyfaces-mirror-9x9.sgf
thaoeuns at gmail.com wrote:
So changing the komi doesn't actually improve your confidence
interval. If (as Darren said) the win percentage is a crude
estimate of the final score, then changing komi would do nothing
to change the results one got (and at extremes biases it badly).
Moving
Darren Cook wrote:
Ingo's suggestion (of two buttons to increment/decrement komi by one
point) was to make it easy for strong humans to test out the idea for us.
Don Dailey wrote:
There is no question that if you provide a button to push, all kinds
of positions will appear where this idea
Don Dailey wrote:
I think we should open up to other ideas, not
just dynamic komi modification. In fact that
has not proved to be a very fruitful technique
and I don't understand the fascination with it.
I was not clear enough in the original posting.
My main point is the following:
One of the difficult questions is if (or better how)
dynamic komi can be used to improve the strength of
MCTS go programs in handicap games (both cases being
interesting: computer on strong side - and -
computer on weak side).
Especially, there are several normal go players
(non-programmers) who
Hello Michael, Lukasz,
Michael Williams wrote:
Are the games archived? Does the public have access to those archives?
Yes, they are. Everybody (with internet access) can
see and replay the games.
For instance, the games of Lukasz Lew can be found at
Hello Lukasz and Urban
Łukasz Lew wrote:
In Havannah, there are not many bots. And, in the meantime
the programmers have marked their profiles accordingly.
Profiles don't help. On LG you just click register and you are paired.
I see your point. When you definitely want to avoid being
Hello,
some time ago I had asked if discussions on
computer Havannah were welcome here in the list.
The reactions were positive, but (by different
reasons) actors preferred not to use the opportunity.
In the meantime a computer Havannah scene has
developed on the game server
Another 2 cents from me:
what about inviting good old Bruce Wilcox for
a show event against computer(s)?
With him you would get all in one:
* strong amateur
* author of (old) go program
* author of one of the best go books ever
Ingo.
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Terry McIntyre wrote:
I can volunteer to organize the computer versus pro demonstration.
Myung-Wan Kim lives in Los Angeles and I can approach him; he
played against Mogo last year.
Will Mogo be available?
Mogo team, do you feel that Mogo has improved since the previous
demonstration?
Zen19 has not been active on KGS since May 9.
But it's rating is soaring. See at
http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=zen19
Just with the start of June 2009 Zen19 has crossed
the barrier to 2-dan. Congratulations!
Ingo.
PS: How can a rating of an inactive player change?
It changes because
Hi Erik,
By the way, Steenvreter is such a nice name. You should
call your baby by full name on KGS.
When I registered the kgs account for Steenvreter the name was too
long, so I had to shorten it :-(
I've update stv's profile to show Steenvreter under 'Real Name'
Thanks.
10 letters seem
Darren Cook wrote:
Back in 1997 I made a $1000 bet with John Tromp that he wouldn't
be beaten my a computer before 2011. I've made a page to publicize
the bet: http://dcook.org/gobet/
Interesting.
Can you add John Trump's current/recent view on the bet
to your site?
Ingo.
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A program named stv has won the 9x9-KGS bot tournament
today by a laaarge margin, ahead of Fuego, Zen9, Aya,
Valkyria and Rango.
More details under
http://www.gokgs.com/tournEntrants.jsp?sort=sid=463
Does someone here know who stv's programmer is?
Ingo.
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Nick Wedd explained:
stv is Steenvreter. Its creator is indeed Erik van der Werf,
whose KGS account is evdw. Its name is Dutch for stone eater...
Congratulations to Erik van der Warf for the Win!
By the way, Steenvreter is such a nice name. You should
call your baby by full name on KGS.
Hello,
maybe this is old stuff for the insiders.
In my lecture today a clever student (Hagen Riedel)
brought up the following idea to extend AMAF.
He counts in four ways moves on a specific square:
(1) How often did player A make this move in random games
which he won?
(2) How often did player A
Today an exhibition match of four games was played
between program MoGo and European Champion
Catalin Taranu (5p).
On 9x9 board, with 30 min for each player.
Games (with tons of comments from spectators)
can be found in KGS archive, under
http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=mogoRennes
Olivier Teytaud wrote:
http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=mogoRennes
... in games 2 and 3 mogo lost quite late with
some stupid very fast moves - this suggests that perhaps
we should save up time in the beginning. Well, it's a
conclusion based on a sample of 2 games :-)
I think
David Fotland wrote:
The last moves in the PV are usually quite weak.
They don’t get a lot of playouts.
In principle I like long PVs, therefore (and of course because
of its playing strength) Many Faces is my favorite Go program.
Several of you may laugh at me/it, but with some training a
Martin Mueller wrote:
In my view, Zen and CrazyStone are clearly the strongest
19x19 programs on equal PC-type hardware. This is what we
saw on CGOS a few months ago. I also expected MoGo to still
be a few hundred Elo ahead of Fuego on 19x19, but this is
not how the two games in Pamplona
Hello,
this is not Go, but I feel that some people here
should know the answer:
What are the results of the Connect6 competition
in the Computer Olympiad.
Thx in advance, Ingo.
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