Remember 1998: In the US Go Congress an exhibition match took place: 5-dan Martin Mueller against Many Faces of Go. Martin gave 29 handicap stones - and won "handily". 29 stones - can you believe it?
ManyFaces was a top bot in those days. In the meantime computer go strength has increased a lot. However, so far not a single go bot was able to repeat such an H-29 win against the old ManyFaces (from 1998). Four years ago I announced a "Handicap-29-Prize" for the first bot that would achieve an H-29 win: 1,000 Euro for its programmer! The programmers are still waiting in their closets. However, with help of the new CNN evaluations a win might have come into reach. I would even allow the Facebook Millionaires to go for the prize! (Not sure though, if they really need the money ;-) More details on the prize are online here: http://www.althofer.de/handicap-29-prize.html Cheers, Ingo. PS. Instead of the traditional MFoG also the 12-kyu level of MFoG 12 may be used as an opponent. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go