Re: [Computer-go] Playouts vs playingstrength

2013-11-20 Thread Michael Alford
Here is the link to the IGS promotion\demotion table. It is supposedly the same as the old Otei system. I thought you might be interested in noting that the higher you rank, the harder it is to advance: http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/ratingsystem/table.phtml Michael On 11/20/13 7:53 AM,

Re: [Computer-go] test

2013-08-24 Thread Michael Alford
In my inbox this morning: On 8/23/13 11:21 PM, Ray Tayek wrote: --- co-chair http://ocjug.org/ ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go --

Re: [Computer-go] is the list still working?

2013-08-20 Thread Michael Alford
Saw this in the ejournal: More On the Gmail Fix: “You can fix gmail going into the wrong tab by simply dragging the email into the right tab,” writes Paul Mitchell. “Gmail will ask you if you want to do that with all email from that source, and if you answer yes then all email from that

Re: [Computer-go] Second Densei-sen results

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Alford
On 3/20/13 9:56 PM, Darren Cook wrote: Looks like Amatuer 6dan, maybe genius Pro Go player lost against Computer. (with picture) http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/news/130320/igo1303202042-n1.htm Here is a quick translation: Thanks for posting this. The first Densei-sen, between

Re: [Computer-go] Oops, the last two messages was intended to be top-level threads

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/16/13 8:01 AM, Adrian Petrescu wrote : The last two messages /were/ received as top-level threads, at least on my Gmail client. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Alexander Kozlovsky alexander.kozlov...@gmail.com mailto:alexander.kozlov...@gmail.com wrote: ...and were not written as a

Re: [Computer-go] Board Sizes

2013-01-07 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/7/13 12:08 AM, Ingo Althöfer wrote: Go is traditionally played on boards of odd sizes (9x9, 13x13, 19x19, ...) and almost never on even ones (10x10 or 18x18 ...). What are the reasons for this? Ingo (has observed something and wants to put it in context). Interesting discussion and

Re: [Computer-go] Develop a client for KGS?

2012-11-09 Thread Michael Alford
On 11/9/12 7:10 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: On 11/08/2012 08:10 PM, Henry Hu wrote: Thanks all. Now I've been working on a web Go game. My purpose is to connect to some Go server for providing users with extended functionalities. Is there any public Go server available? I knew IGS' protocol

Re: [Computer-go] 50k-100k patterns

2012-08-11 Thread Michael Alford
This has been a most interesting discussion, thanks to all that participated. As far as tricks, hard and deliberate practice, or focus goes, I would like to share an observation from Guo Juan: The only difference between an IGS 3k and a 3d is the 3d knows more tricks. To get beyond 3d you have

Re: [Computer-go] 50k-100k patterns

2012-08-11 Thread Michael Alford
On 8/11/12 9:36 AM, Don Dailey wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Michael Alford m...@aracnet.com mailto:m...@aracnet.com wrote: This has been a most interesting discussion, thanks to all that participated. As far as tricks, hard and deliberate practice, or focus goes, I

Re: [Computer-go] test case on divide conquer

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Alford
On 7/12/12 7:43 AM, terry mcintyre wrote: Ah, my mistake is obvious now. Black can take each of the four white rabbity six groups. Locally, it looks like each black group is dead, but the big white group has too few liberties to make good the threat to kill. Black takes all

Re: [Computer-go] New mailing list signups not working

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Alford
On 7/10/12 10:27 AM, Peter Drake wrote: I've got students trying to sign up for this mailing list. At least one of them has not received any response for several weeks; apparently the moderator has to approve these things. Does anyone know a way around this or, alternately, an appropriate way

Re: [Computer-go] TEDx seeds Kobayashi Koichi nov 2011

2012-05-11 Thread Michael Alford
On 4/30/12 9:56 AM, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3pB_R9AaU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pPoEh3cffo Jonathan Chetwynd j...@peepo.com ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org

Re: [Computer-go] Beating old ManyFaces at 29 handicap stones

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/27/12 8:39 AM, Ingo Althöfer wrote: Hello Michael, Hello Ingo Just fyi, when I attended the WYGC in Richmond BC, Canada in 2004, the kids were doing this, Uhh. The kids, were that normal Canadian kids or super-intelligent ones with Asian roots? The WYGC is open to all. Many top

Re: [Computer-go] Beating old ManyFaces at 29 handicap stones

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/26/12 1:04 PM, Ingo Althöfer wrote: In August 1998, during the US Go Congress, Martin Mueller (5-d) and Many Faces of Go (without any Monte Carlo knowledge in those days) played an exhibition game. The bot had 29 handicap stones, but Martin beat it. Recently, dynamic komi helped Monte

Re: [Computer-go] Zen blunder in long mirror go game

2012-01-17 Thread Michael Alford
On 1/17/12 4:38 AM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: My apologize, I trusted too much that GnuGo's score estimator would have handled Chinese rules. So end result was not w+½ but b+½, because black filled the last dame. It looks like that indeed mirror go in handicap games is a problem for gobots. I

Re: [Computer-go] Yippee!

2011-12-30 Thread Michael Alford
On 12/30/11 5:21 AM, Christopher Rosin wrote: Check this http://www.2buss.com/inf.php?NewYear It really works! This is more spam, it redirects to an online pharmacy. ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org

Re: [Computer-go] As I Promised

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Alford
On 12/17/11 7:37 AM, Robert Solovay wrote: Here's an amazing thing http://www.alastairmeikle.com/inf.php?NewYear Check it! This is spam, it redirects to an online pharmacy. ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org

Re: [Computer-go] 19x19 opening books

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Alford
On 7/11/11 10:51 AM, steve uurtamo wrote: It also has a joseki book with all published lines in english, entered from books (about 60K positions). and for the non-go players out there, this is useful, critical, and very difficult to use correctly. without joseki sequences, 19x19 games can

Re: [Computer-go] Two papers

2011-05-11 Thread Michael Alford
On 5/11/11 11:43 AM, Jacques Basaldúa wrote: Rémi Coulom wrote: Also, I think we did not yet advertise that paper Lukasz wrote with me last year: http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~lew/files/Simulation-based%20Search%20of%20Combinatorial%20Games.pdf This one doesn't work for me. I get : Access

Re: [Computer-go] Testing

2011-04-09 Thread Michael Alford
On 4/9/11 6:16 PM, David Fotland wrote: Testing if I can reply from my smart-games account… *From:*computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-boun...@dvandva.org] *On Behalf Of *David Fotland *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 10:37 PM *To:* computer-go@dvandva.org *Subject:*

Re: [Computer-go] OGS Alan Turing 2010 tournament

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Alford
On 12/27/10 2:17 PM, James Guo wrote: I made some change to get it compile and run on later version of linux, it is at: http://www.kikong.net/xgospel/ James Guo thank you --- On *Mon, 12/27/10, Jean-loup Gailly /jl...@gailly.net/* wrote: From: Jean-loup Gailly jl...@gailly.net

Re: [Computer-go] [SPAM] Re: visualize patterns

2010-12-11 Thread Michael Alford
On 12/11/10 8:42 AM, Olivier Teytaud wrote: http://www.moyogo.com/ Thanks for the suggestion. The free download link seems to be broken, at least at this time; I'll try again later (also when I'll have a windows machine :-) ). Best regards, Olivier

Re: [Computer-go] excessive bounce cutoff, attempt to change address, attempt to get password confirmation, ...

2010-04-19 Thread Michael Alford
On 4/19/10 8:33 AM, Richard Brown wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Stuart A. Yeates syea...@gmail.com mailto:syea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:38 AM, steve uurtamo uurt...@gmail.com mailto:uurt...@gmail.com wrote: i have to pull about 1/5 of this list's