Erik van der Werf: <[email protected]>: >Hi Nick, > >A comment about your remark at the end of the report regarding the >winning chances of white: I don't think you should count all games; >uneven games (where one side is much stronger) are almost meaningless. >But maybe you didn't do that either (because I don't see how you got >to 41-39 from 20 rounds with 8 games per round), but then please tell >us where you drew the line. > >I did a quick count for games between programs finishing in the top 5. >If I count correctly this comes to White: 13, Black: 6 > >Somehow I feel that these kgs tournaments are for an important part >decided by the kgs paring algorithm. It's annoying; the olympiad has >become a hardware contest and the kgs tournaments a lottery. Hardly >any good tournaments left. (Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, it's >still fun to watch :-))
I don't think Olympiad is becoming a hardware contest. Zen won the last Olympiad using a stock 8 core MacPro against MoGo, Fuego, and MFG, all were powered by computer clusters. Still (and, perhaps, forever) smart playouts are the key of MC Go programs. Please remeber the number of cores improves the strength by a logarithmic sense in Elo scale. I'd like to agree, however, B or W is a key on 9x9 boards now and I've introduced draw with 7.0 komi for GPW Cup. Hideki >Best, >Erik > > > > >On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Nick Wedd <[email protected]> wrote: >> Congratulations to Erica, winner of yesterday's KGS bot tournament. >> >> My report is at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/63/index.html. Please >> tell me about the mistakes it almost certainly contains. >> >> Nick >> -- >> Nick Wedd [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> >_______________________________________________ >Computer-go mailing list >[email protected] >http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go -- Hideki Kato <mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
