More than ten thousand games 19x19 Go are played in my computer Go Tournament - time to again publish some results!
Please have a look at my newly created site for results and more informations: www.igosoft.com All these games are played on my home PC (Windows - Intel Pentium IV - 2.6 GHz). Until now I focussed on the classical programs, so GOEMATE 2001 from Zhen Zhixing and GO++ 7.0 from Michael Reiss are still the top engines here. Recently I added a newer version of Peter Woitke´s program SUZIE for 19x19. This engine works with pure alpha-beta tree-search and a position evaluation function like most of the classical chess engines do and I think it is most remarkable how much SUZIE improved in last years without use of MonteCarlo TreeSearch techniques. SUZIE 0.40 finished third and seems to be nearly as strong as the older version of Go++ 5.0. Then FUNGO 2000 proved to be only a little bit stronger than the tested GNUGO versions 3.7.10 and 3.7.11 but weaker than GNUGO 3.7.11 on level 15. I now see that GnuGo v3.8 is released and plan to replay most of the games with this newer version as soon as possible. But first I finally want to let play the 2008 Computer Go Champion, MANYFACES v12 by David Fotland. This program offers two different engines and I want to include both, the classical but also improved engine, level "4 Kyu", still with alphabeta-TS, to replace MANYFACES 11, and the even much stronger MC-TS engine, level "2 Kyu". Than I really would be glad if I could invite more of the actual MC programs out there like MOGO, CRAZYSTONE, ZEN, FUEGO (possibly I could use the windows-executable of v0.32,SVN799 compiled by Ben Lambrechts!?), LEELA, ... and more to participate! All kinds of questions, comments or suggestions are most welcome and highly appreciated! Stefan _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
