Hi all, Hideki Kato: <4c9fdb61.1186%[email protected]>: >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 boss of MyGoFriend team told me at the banquet, they are all German but their company is registered in UK becaues of the tax. Hideki >>> 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
