Hello, as a proud owner of CrazyStone2011 I have to tell you: most of your wishes are from a wrong league.
> > Does it run on linux + wine ? I do not know. But: the program is vey sensible. Only when its window (under XP Home at lest) is the active one it computes. So, during a game of CrazyStone you can not work in a text editor or write email or surf in the internet. > > or even better is there a linux version ? No. > I've the same questions. Also, can it be set to think for a long time Not exactly. It has 10 levels. For board sizes 19x19 and 13x13 I found: On level 10 it thinks in the average 60 seconds per move. On level 9 it thinks in the average 20 seconds per move. On level 8 it thinks in the average 3 seconds per move. (For 9x9-board level 10 takes at most 30 seconds per move.) There is another scale called "timed games". But that seems to be bugged somehow. I tried 13x13 and gave the bot 20 minutes + 60 seconds byoyomi. CrazyStone made all its moves within 15 seconds. > and use all available cores? It seems so, at least on my dualcore PC. > Can it be set to use just a certain number of threads? The user has almost no chance to give commands to the bot. The interface is taken from Go++ version 5.0 (that is from the times before Monte Carlo). There is not a single percentage value you can see. But there is a Monte-Carlo engine inside. Manually, I played a few test games against ManyFaces 12.022 which is the current commercial version of David Fotland. Giving approximately same times (which is difficult with CrazyStone, see above), CrazyStone seems to have (on "normal" dualcore PC's) the upper hand on 9x9 (1 game) and 19x19 (1 game). On 13x13, ManyFaces seems to be stronger (estimated from the flow of two games). Rules in CrazyStone are Japanese, automatically. No alternative. CrazyStone is not able to read common sgf from KGS protocol. It is however able to read its own sgf. > A commandline GTP interface is my other wishlist item, but I do realize > that one is just wishful thinking in a commercial product :-) Right. CrazyStone seems to be made for "the" mass market. Remi Coulom told me that he was not involved in the design of the interface of commercial CrazyStone. He just gave his engine to the company which is now selling the product. For some hours I was unhappy having spend 60 Dollars for CrazyStone. But then I remembered that there are other strong bots around (like Zen) for which no commercial western version exists at all. And: now I, once again, appreciate the great interface David Fotland has given us with his Many Faces of Go. Ingo. -- NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
