7x7 is actually not very interesting for computers. I did some tests with Lazarus, which is far weaker than many of the better programs and the games are one-sided, depending on the komi either white or black wins every game.
If you made the komi 9.0 probably all the games would end in a draw. If you use 8.5 black would win them all and 9.5 would be white wins. That is probably why it didn't get a lot of traffic. It's not entirely useless, but I don't think it's worth having to maintain a separate 7x7 server. - Don On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 12:55 -0400, Jason House wrote: > On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We put up a 7x7 site a while back and I thought it would get heavy > > traffic, but instead almost no interest. > > I don't remember ever hearing about it. I'd use it for faster testing. > > > > > > > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 12:39 -0400, Jason House wrote: > >> On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> I am working on a plan to possibly be able to run 2 boardsizes on > >>> Dave > >>> Dyers boardspace site. If this plan works out, obviously 9x9 is > >>> very > >>> popular and we will keep it. The only questions is what should the > >>> other board size be. It is starting to appear than 19x19 is the > >>> second > >>> most popular for computer go. > >> > >> > >> 7x7 is interesting to me for a few reasons: > >> • It was "solved" by some dans a while back. This gives a perfect > >> fuseki database and measurably correct and incorrect evaluations > >> • 7x7 < 64, so bitboards could be extremely effective. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
