I have to withdraw from this tournament. I don't have a windows computer, and getting access to one with the ability to install tools has been tougher than anticipated.
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 14:53 +0100, Nick Wedd wrote: > The European Go Congress (see http://egc2008.eu/en/congress/index.php) > will be held in Leksand, Sweden from July 26th to August 9th. On > Wednesday August 6th it will include a Computer Go event (see > http://www.computer-go.info/egc2008/). > > Entry to this is free. If you would like to enter but cannot be there > yourself, it should be possible for you to send in your program, and I > will try to find an operator for it. > > According to my records, entries so far are: > > 19x19 9x9 > CrazyStone possible possible > FirstGo yes yes > GNU Go probable probable > HouseBot no yes > Leela probable yes > Mango possible possible > Many Faces of Go yes no > Steenvreter no yes > Toaster no possible > TSGo probable no > Tuuppari yes yes > valkyria possible possible > Wei2Go probable no > > I expect this table needs correcting and bringing up to date. > Corrections and updates may be posted to this list or sent to me > privately, as you prefer. Late entries are also welcome. > > The programs will be run on Windows Vista PCs in Leksand, connected to > KGS, where the games will be played. > > Of the programs listed above, TSGo (by Ivo Tonkes) and Tuuppari (by a > team of Finnish programmers) have never, so far as I know, competed in a > KGS tournament. I would like both those programs to play in a trial > tournament on KGS, to ensure that they are correctly configured for > tournament play, rather than finding out that they aren't on the day of > the event. I am willing to set up such a trial tournament whenever > requested - it will use very short time limits, and no-one will care who > wins, the purpose will be to test their handling of the tournament > settings. However I suspect that neither of these programs yet has its > Windows version in a presentable state. I hope to hear soon from Ivo > Tonkes and Mika Urtela about this - if I don't, I shall assume that they > aren't reading this list, and email them privately. > > I owe two pints of beer to "the GNU Go team". I expect to deliver these > to Gunnar, if he is there to operate GNU Go. Gunnar will also be > speaking on computer Go, after the tournament. > > Nick _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
