Hello Pawel, welcome in the computer-go community.
Perhaps, you let "Hopeless" start in the next 9x9-bot tournament on KGS. Questions to Nick Wedd: When will the next 9x9 tournament be? Is there still a report on the November tournament to come? Cheers, Ingo -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:14:51 +0100 > Von: Pawel Koziol <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Computer-go] a newcomer > hi, > > My name is Pawel Koziol, I live in Warsaw, Poland, working as a freelance > translator, editor or proofreader, thus wasting my PhD in mediaeval > literature. I also am a self-taught, amateur programmer, and a co-author > of > a chess-playing entity called Glass (http://www.marittima.pl/glass). > > The go engine, called somwhat unimaginatively "Hopeless" (just like my > first > chess program) is available at: > > www.koziol.home.pl/hopeless.zip > > The machine is based on a random playing engine called Brown (see README). > I > just used it to play random MonteCarlo playouts, then tried to exclude > some > more moves, then to direct random playouts a bit. At the root, a score is > modified using some heuristics. > > Hopeless has just achieved its first goal, beating igowin a couple of > times > on an empty 9x9 board, no komi, in under 5 minutes. It requires about 2000 > simulations for each tentative move, so something like 150.000 per early > game board position. > > My next goal is to add "an implausible move rejector" (seems to require > less > knowledge than a plausible move generator) in order to cut down the > playing > time. > > regards, > Pawel Koziol > [email protected] -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
