> From: Nick Wedd <nick <at> maproom.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [computer-go] Mertin's private 9×9 & 19×19 tournament > Date: 2007-10-09 10:28:38 GMT > > Edward de Grijs <grey.matter <at> hotmail.com> writes > > Hello all, > > is something known about this tournament yet? In > > http://www.computer-go.info/events/future.html > > is stated that this tournament would take place this year > > in Germany, but so far no news. > > Does somebody have more information? > > This is Stefan Mertin. He runs tournaments by getting copies of > go-playing programs and playing them against each other. He has told me > of his plans to run one this year, but he may have decided that with > CGOS working so well, it would be superfluous. He has posted to this > list, so let's hope he sees this thread. > Nick
YES! It´s me - Stefan Mertin in Osnabrueck, Germany I am very happy about the great succes of Don Daileys Computer GO Server although with it my own private tournaments have become by far less important but my home PC is still running (nearly night and day!) playing new games between all the Go programs I have - So I hope to present first results still this year! I started playing "private" tournaments on my home PC in 2000 with a first 9x9 contest of all the Go-programs I could get for it - Nick Wedd published the results on the Go sites at the BGA. Then from 2002 to 2005 I played a new huge 13x13 tournament with at the end 25 programs and nearly 1000 games played - results and games are still here: http://www.geocities.com/comp_go/13x13.html Winner was Go++ (prototype of what later was available as Go++4.0) by Nick Reiss Second was GoeMate (a last tournament-version of 2001) by Chen Zhixing Third was the newest GnuGo version of that time 3.2 playing on level 15 and fourth was ManyFaces (v.10.2 shortly before v.11.0) by David Fotland together with GoProfessional-III, an earlier commercial version of Go++ here is a complete result-list of all the participants: rank program status version year author country ------------------- --------------------- ------------------------------ 01. GO PROF.(GO4++) x beta72 Aug.2001 Dr. Michael Reiss England 02. GOEMATE x,c:jap Apr.2001 Prof. Chen, Zhixing China 03. GNU-GO f v3.2lev15 2002 FSF(D.Bump +div.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04. GO PROFESSIONAL c vIII 1999 Dr. Michael Reiss England 04. MANY FACES OF GO x,c v10.2 2001 David Fotland USA 06. GO-AHEAD x v4.2 2001 Dr. Peter Woitke Germany 07. HANDTALK c v99.04 (98.10E) Prof. Chen, Zhixing China 07. WINHONTE f v0.94 2003 Fredrik A. Dahl Norway 07. WULU c,d v2.38 2001 Lei Xiuyu & Wulu-Team China 10. GO INTELLECT x v10.0Win 1998 Prof. Ken Chen USA 11. DARIUSH x v2.6.8.2 2002 E.Marchand + F.Boissac France 12. GNU-GO f v3.0 Aug.2001 FSF(D.Bump +div.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13. GOLIATH c,d v3.5 1996 Mark Boon Netherlands 14. KATSUNARI d,x v8.0 Aug.2001 Sei, Shinichi Japan 15. STAR OF POLAND c? v6.0 1993 Janusz Kraszek Poland 15. AYA f v4.65 2001 Hiroshi Yamashita Japan 17. EGO c,d samurai 1995 Bruce Wilcox Hawaii 18. EXPLORER f v3.3(Mac) 1995 Martin Müller Austria-CH-USA 19. SMARTGO x,c v1.0.1 2002 Anders Kierulf USA 20. INDIGO x,f Sept.2001 Dr. Bruno Bouzy France 20. GOLOIS x,c v1.0 2001 Dr. Tristan Cazenave France 22. GO-STAR x v4.0 Aug.2001 Jimmy Lu (Lu Jinqiang) China 22. PROGO ? v1.4 1991 Robert Rehm Netherlands 24. TS-GO x v9.3 2001 Ivo Tonkes Netherlands 24. TURBO-GO s v5.0 2000 Arnoud v.d. Loeff Netherlands (f=free; s=shareware; d=demo free; c=commercial; x=tourn./experimental version) In 2007 I now first started playing hundreds of games on the big board 19x19 including Go++5.0 / GoeMate2001 / FunGo2000 / ManyFaces11.0 and GoAhead5.2 but then I changed again to the small board 9x9 and I hope to finish soon a first set of rounds and want to publish the results and all the 9x9 games played so far between these programs: ManyFacesOfGo v.11.0 Go Intellect v.10 WinHonte v.2.01 Go++ v.5.0 GoeMate 2001 GnuGo v3.6 level 15 Aya v5.99 CrazyStone0005 and Suzie v0.26 This will be nearly round robin with 150 games each pairing. Next perhaps SmartGo 2.7 and Dariush 5.2 may be included (then without playing each other program) and of course MoGo - but all the above participating programs are older versions and I think it could be most interesting to include newer versions of most of them to see the progress and I hope very much on all the programmers to tell me, which newer version of their software I should let play again... I restarted my tournaments this year because I have now a possibility to play games automatically between different Go programs running on one PC without using GTP or GMP so that older Go software like FunGo can be paired with newer Go playing programs that run on Windows (Linux is not yet included). Interfaces like GoGui or DraGo are a big help for that! A time consuming problem that still has to be solved is finding the correct result of all the games played. Until now I have an automatically generated result based on the evaluation of GnuGo and sometimes I should check all these with some help of SmartGo - but as there are so many games played, this problem luckily does not affect the results in a way worth mentioning. My plans are to continue these tournaments for 9x9 and 19x19 over the years, publishing results monthly and to include as many programs and newer versions of the programs as possible and let play handicap games as well. Stefan _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
