On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:52:07AM +0800, Aja wrote: >> Zen19D, running on a small cluster with 26 cores, is rated 5d in KGS now. I >> played several games with it and felt Zen is getting close to my level. I am >> happy to see that Crazy Stone and Zen are both so strong. Looks like in >> computer Go community we got 1-2 stones improvement in the past year. > > Yes, I just wish people would also publish their improvements. ;-) > My guess is that the main improvement of Zen and CrazyStone is in > better domain-specific tactical heuristics?
Do you really think there have been big unpublished improvements recently? Several programs already got to 3d/4d (kgs blitz) some time ago on much smaller machines. My guess would be that this recent increment to 5d is primarily due more powerful hardware... Erik _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
