in the last game, a comment i especially noted was that miai was handled poorly by the computer player and was a seemingly effective strategy for playing against a computer, since there were many miai that john left for later. once two fights got close enough to affect one another, the miai got more complicated, because john could seemingly (locally) sacrifice groups that were still just fine. on a positive note, MFoG seemed to do a good job at working to keep sente.
on the question of who was allowed to comment and who was not -- in the first game, the rule as stated was that only dan-level players would be given permission to comment. then a 2kyu player was added into the mix, but the level of conversation was indeed restrained by the fact that it was only 4-5 people giving most of the commentary. s. On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:14 AM, terry mcintyre <[email protected]> wrote: > In one of the games, "gogonuts" - who has played many games with computer > programs - opined that multiple unresolved semeai are a weakness of MC > programs. > > A strong human would reason that if the outcome of semeai A, B, and C are > individually losses for the program, then the aggregate probability is to lose > all three fights. > Terry McIntyre <[email protected]> > > > Unix/Linux Systems Administration > Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Mark Boon <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 6:25:14 PM >> Subject: Re: [Computer-go] News on Tromp-Cook ? >> >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jacques Basaldúa <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I don't agree the first two games were that easy. >> > >> > In the second game the bot was ahead most of the game >> > and failed in life and death in the top right corner. >> >> Yes, we disagree. The first game was finished before it had well >> begun. By move 50 or so. >> >> The second game the computer was also doing poorly until John got >> careless about his left-side group. The computer played that well and >> took the lead. But only briefly, as it had the top-right corner killed >> immediately after. So I wouldn't say the computer was ahead most of >> the game. It was ahead for only a very brief moment. >> >> But opinions about games can differ of course. Generally I saw the >> computer do some impressive things and some very silly things. >> >> Mark >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
