Hi; What is sure is that MoGo is available. We can also let the opportunity to other programs which have had less opportunities of games against pro.
We have only small progresses in 19x19. From what I saw in previous games, I guess many programs have nearly the same limit and nearly the same architecture: patterns in the tree and monte-carlo tree search are necessary for good performance, sequence-like Monte-Carlo is also mandatory. I guess (but I'm not sure) that Rave is not absolutely required. As programs improve, my humble opinion is that computational power becomes less and less efficient as now the main trouble is the systematic bias for some positions (semeais or too complicated life-and-death situations) - parallelization is not required. In 19x19, the best performance so far was a win against a pro with handicap 6, or against a top pro (9P Zhou Junxun) with handicap 7 - this is a bad piece of news for 19x19 games, as I guess it will be really very difficult to do better than that. I prefer 9x9 games for that, as I guess it's possible to do better than previous best results so far (in particular computers might win in complete games), but I know that Kim is not interested in 9x9. Best regards, Olivier > > Will Mogo be available? > > Mogo team, do you feel that Mogo has improved since the previous > demonstration? > > Which is the strongest computer go program nowadays? > > Terry McIntyre <terrymcint...@yahoo.com> > > “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” -- > Aesop > ------------------------------ > *From:* David Doshay <ddos...@mac.com> > *To:* computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 9, 2009 10:56:30 AM > *Subject:* Re: [computer-go] US Go Congress > > Because of my health problems I will not be able to attend this year > either, so neither of the two people who ran last year's event in Portland > will be able to do it this year. > > Any other volunteers? It would be nice if this became a regular event > again. > > Cheers, > David > > > > On 9, Jun 2009, at 9:27 AM, Peter Drake wrote: > > > Due to other commitments, I will NOT be attending the US Go Congress in > Fairfax, Virginia, August 1-9. As a result, if there is to be any computer > Go event there (e.g., computer-computer tournament, computer-professional > match), someone else will have to organize it. > > > > Peter Drake > > http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/ <http://www.lclark.edu/%7Edrake/> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > computer-go@computer-go.org > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > -- ========================================================= Olivier Teytaud (TAO-inria) olivier.teyt...@inria.fr Tel (33)169154231 / Fax (33)169156586 Equipe TAO (Inria-Futurs), LRI, UMR 8623(CNRS - Universite Paris-Sud), bat 490 Universite Paris-Sud 91405 Orsay Cedex France (one of the 56.5 % of french who did not vote for Sarkozy in 2007)
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