Hi, one week after round 1 of the codeccentric Freestyle League I have sorted my thoughts. Of course, I know only the team captains and not their internal structures.
Until yesteday it was my opinion that there are mainly three types of teams: outsiders, boxes. and brains. (This pseudo-classification does not include the team of Freiburg, which had a bye in round 1.) Boxes are those which bank on hardware power (+ Leela and LeelaZero ?!). This might be the case for the computer science powerhouses (University of) Paderborn and (University of) Karlsruhe. Outsiders? Perhaps those (Oldenburg and Saarbruecken?!) who were capped in round 1 by the boxes. And what about Darmstadt (DeepGreen) and Hamburg (AI Sensei)? Darmstadt is perhaps "mixed pickles" with tendency to brain. And until yesterday I was rather convinced that Hamburg was THE brain team (around Benjamin Teuber). But then some Go afficionado from Hamburg (Toby) meditated in Germany's Go forum about renting cloud power for Go analysis. Perhaps Hamburg is a hidden cloud box?! Let it be, what it is. Next round on November 07 will include the top duel Karlsruhe vs Hamburg. Ingo. PS. Unfortunately, the "Jena International Go School" (JIGS) learnt too late about the event. They applied on October 03, but the deadline had been August 31 ... Perhaps in next year's season. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
