Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-12 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le jeudi 11 octobre 2007 22:31, Christoph Birk a écrit : On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Don Dailey wrote: But we had a 19x19 server and it WAS NOT interesting. Nobody seemed willing to play on it. Maybe that has changed now. It was not interesting because there was only one competitive program on

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-12 Thread Heikki Levanto
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:32:44PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: But what I had in mind in some kind of ratings agency where the conditions are controlled and everything is completely open. Here is what is required: 1. Someone with at least 2 equal DEDICATED computers plus a server. 2.

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-12 Thread Ian Osgood
On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Rémi Coulom wrote: In case nobody noticed, Crazy Stone won a match against KCC Igo this summer, with 15 wins and 4 losses. The match was organized by Hiroshi Yamashita. The games can be found in the KGS archives.

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-12 Thread Rémi Coulom
Ian Osgood wrote: On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Rémi Coulom wrote: In case nobody noticed, Crazy Stone won a match against KCC Igo this summer, with 15 wins and 4 losses. The match was organized by Hiroshi Yamashita. The games can be found in the KGS archives.

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-12 Thread Chris Fant
. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Osgood Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:54 AM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] best approach forward On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Rémi Coulom wrote: In case

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-12 Thread Hiroshi Yamashita
screen recognition. Regards, Hiroshi Yamashita - Original Message - From: Rémi Coulom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:09 AM Subject: Re: [computer-go] best approach forward Ian Osgood wrote: On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:01

RE: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-12 Thread David Fotland
] On Behalf Of Ian Osgood Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:54 AM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] best approach forward On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Rémi Coulom wrote: In case nobody noticed, Crazy Stone won a match against KCC Igo this summer, with 15 wins and 4 losses

RE: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread David Fotland
I agree. Computer go needs someone who will play large tournaments are publish results. I'm also curious how Many Faces would do against Mogo on 19x19 in a long match. Mogo is much better at endgames, and is much greedier, but Many Faces is much stronger tactically. Certainly if there were

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Don Dailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fotland wrote: I agree. Computer go needs someone who will play large tournaments are publish results. I'm also curious how Many Faces would do against Mogo on 19x19 in a long match. Mogo is much better at endgames, and is much greedier,

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread terry mcintyre
- Original Message From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] My point is that this probably won't happen in computer Go but it happened long ago in computer chess. - - Don Can you point us to info about comparable agency for computer chess? Who funds such an agency? Thanks!

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Rémi Coulom
Don Dailey wrote: I believe Many Faces is probably stronger than Mogo but I don't know that this has been proven. Hi Don, I'd bet on Mogo. In case nobody noticed, Crazy Stone won a match against KCC Igo this summer, with 15 wins and 4 losses. The match was organized by Hiroshi Yamashita.

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Don Dailey
parameters are fixed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don Dailey Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:33 AM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] best approach forward David Fotland wrote: I agree. Computer go needs someone

RE: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread David Fotland
AM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] best approach forward -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fotland wrote: I agree. Computer go needs someone who will play large tournaments are publish results. I'm also curious how Many Faces would do against Mogo

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Christoph Birk
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Don Dailey wrote: Right now we know that Mogo dominates in 9x9. Without CGOS this would be speculation based on who won the last tournament. But CGOS is not the right way although it's a useful tool.There needs to be some kind of testing agency that is fair and

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Ian Osgood
On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:44 AM, terry mcintyre wrote: - Original Message From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] My point is that this probably won't happen in computer Go but it happened long ago in computer chess. - - Don Can you point us to info about comparable agency for computer

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Don Dailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Teytaud wrote: I'd connect Crazy Stone to CGOS if Many Faces is there. Mogo will be there also; a 19x19 Cgos would be very interesting in my humble opinion. But we had a 19x19 server and it WAS NOT interesting. Nobody seemed willing

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Olivier Teytaud
I'd connect Crazy Stone to CGOS if Many Faces is there. Mogo will be there also; a 19x19 Cgos would be very interesting in my humble opinion. The only drawback of Cgos for me is that we have no idea (at least, I have no idea) of the equivalence with human standards (kgs rankings are much easier

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Chris Fant
Yeah, let's get it up tonight (in three hours). I can't give you an account, but I can administer it. On 10/11/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Teytaud wrote: I'd connect Crazy Stone to CGOS if Many Faces is there. Mogo

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Christoph Birk
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Don Dailey wrote: I appreciate the vote of confidence, but my point is that if you want some kind of certified rating CGOS is not a good choice. You can run anything on CGOS and claim anything. You could even substitute a strong human player, if you wanted to.

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread David Doshay
The problem with a closed system where the tournament director controls both of the machines is that it precludes programs like mine, SlugGo, that intrinsically use multiple CPUs and run on Macs rather than Windows or Linux boxes. Cheers, David On 11, Oct 2007, at 12:15 PM, Don Dailey wrote:

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread terry mcintyre
I'd say that the CGOS server has been an invaluable spur to development, since it does allow fairly easy testing against the competition. What Don seems to be proposing is a way of standardizing the hardware - all programs run on the same platform. It seems that this would require an

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Don Dailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Doshay wrote: The problem with a closed system where the tournament director controls both of the machines is that it precludes programs like mine, SlugGo, that intrinsically use multiple CPUs and run on Macs rather than Windows or Linux

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Don Dailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the computer chess ratings they don't necessarily use identical machines, the idea is to simply publish each player as a software/hardware combo.You will see for instance that some programs were tested on a variety of hardware. Which in itself

Re: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Christoph Birk
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Don Dailey wrote: But we had a 19x19 server and it WAS NOT interesting. Nobody seemed willing to play on it. Maybe that has changed now. It was not interesting because there was only one competitive program on it (MoGo). Most people's programs are too weak at 19x19, but

RE: [computer-go] best approach forward

2007-10-11 Thread Stefan Mertin
One thing computer chess has had for a very long time and is practically absent in Go is a rating list. It's always been possible to identify who the best programs and where they stand relative to any other. There are agencies that play hundreds of thousands of games constantly to track