Stefan, that is common misconception. There is perhaps not even single public game between human and strong computer with slow champion level time controls. Therefore you cannot derive gobot's strenght from its blitz strenght. Unlike gobots humans are cunning because they can plan, count and read ahead if given unlimited time.
Jouni On Jun 14, 2011 5:56 PM, "Stefan Kaitschick" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> X-Prize# >>> >>> If someone makes a gobot that wins me on best of 5 match (80 40 >>> fischer), I will pay for the programmer €1000 X-prize. Prize will be >>> in effect for the next 2000 years or when the winner of the >>> competition has been found. Challenges can be played during European >>> Go Congress, but I accept them only after successful preliminaries >>> played on rapid time settings at KGS. >>> ... >>> >>> >>> * European Go Congress 2011 is in Bordeaux: >>> July 23 to August 06. There is a very strong french bot around. >>> Remi might find sponsors who back him with 1,000 Euro. >>> >>> * European Go Congress 2012 will be in Bonn (Germany): >>> July 21 to August 04. There should be German sponsors to >>> back a programmer with 1,000 Euro. >>> >>> Ingo. > X-Prize means that it's a prize, not a wager. > So the bot side isn't risking money. > > But the problem seems to me, that with recent bot advances the bot would > be favorite against even a 3 dan. > So to make it interesting, by now you need a 4 dan challenge. > > Stefan > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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