Hi Darren, Darren Cook: <[email protected]>: >>> It's only competing in 9x9. They say 13x13 next year. A German program, >> >> They have registered GBR for their nationality. > >But they are quite definitely German, from Dortmund, IIRC. One >programmer who has been working on it for 8 years, then a business guy; >apparently they all played at the same chess club and decided to take >the program to the next level in terms of making a business around it.
Very interesting. Thank you for the info. >> The chief programmer told me it's very specific for 9x9. > >We also know it is monte-carlo-based, but not much more. >It is curious that 2 of its 3 losses (the ones against Mogo and >ManyFaces) were as white, not as black (*); then they won as black >against the same opponent. I'm looking forward to studying those game >records in particular. Yes, those also are what I wondered yesterday. Hideki >Darren > >*: For most of the other strong programs the losses were as black, so >the "7.5pt komi is too high" hypothesis still stands. -- Hideki Kato <mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
