*This* is exactly the kind of bravado that I was waiting to see explain the monetary offer.
Bravo, Jouni! And good luck! (BTW: don't back down on fischer timing. It's your money, after all!) s. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
