December 5th: http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/future.html
Nick was sick, so he said there might be a delay in the last report. David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of "Ingo Althöfer" > Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 2:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] a newcomer > > 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 _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
