The Shodan Go bet page has been up six months now: http://dcook.org/gobet/
In the voting, 128 people have now responded. For a while the three choices (Computer Wins vs. Too Close To Call vs. John Wins) were getting equal numbers of votes. But recently John has pulled ahead, with 42% thinking he will beat the computer. Uh-oh. The deadline to play those games is the end of next year, so you programmers have about 12 months to get your programs comfortably above 3 dan level. Please. John and I would like to make this a face-to-face event, if we can. Is anyone interested in sponsoring such an event, or knows a company that might be? At this stage we're open to any and all offers and suggestions (*). Please get in touch off-list. It may not have the glamour of playing a professional or world champion, but I personally feel this competition, to win against a strong human player in an even match, is much more meaningful. There are no excuses: no handicap, no unaffordable supercomputer and John is very familiar with computer go. By the way, in the other survey (when will a computer beat the world champion?), the votes are spread quite widely, but over 60% of the respondents think it will be some time in the next 20 years. On the other end of the spectrum, 11 die-hards still think it will never happen. If you disagree, and can explain why, the voting pages also allow you to leave comments! Darren *: But it cannot be in Japan; a wager between two individuals is not allowed here. -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/gobet/ (Shodan Go Bet - who will win?) http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (Multilingual open source semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
