just to elaborate the original shodan-go bet was intended to be " Fischer time control. 40 mins + 20 secs/move." and was later changed to 110 minutes each, sudden death see http://dcook.org/gobet/details.html
Funny the details note: More time would probably favour a MCTS program, On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Willemien <[email protected]> wrote: > On the timing > (80 40 fischer) > Means 80 minutes basic time and 40 seconds bonus time added after > each move.this means in practice around 3 hours total thinking time. > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, steve uurtamo <[email protected]> wrote: >> *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 >> > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
