that's great to hear! there's a categorical and strong empirical difference between players on kgs that are over 5d from those who are below 5d. it's shockingly clear in slowish games. i'd love to see a machine at 6d, and expect that there's nothing stopping it from happening soon.
keep up the great work -- the bigger the pool of strong machine players, the better for everyone. s. On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Rémi Coulom <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 janv. 2012, at 20:12, David Fotland wrote: > >> Very impressive. Does anyone know the relative hardware? I think the 5 dan >> Zen was running on 26 cores. > > Thanks for the nice comments. I am running on 24 cores (Dell PowerEdge R905 > Rack Server, 4 x Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8439 SE, 2.8GHz). But it > is only one machine. So my 24 cores are probably much more efficient than the > 26 cores of Zen. > >> >> Remi, can you tell us how much of the benefit was due to CLOP? It's an >> excellent tool BTW. Thank you for sharing it. > > The big improvement I got recently came from tuning one parameter that I had > forgotten to tune for a few years. I tuned it with CLOP, but I would have > probably got the same result if I had tuned it manually (about +100 Elo in > self play, both on 9x9 and 19x19). CLOP simply makes tuning a lot more > convenient. I really enjoy using it very much. I am glad if people like it > too. > > I also fixed a silly bug that was worth 30 Elo in self-play. > > Improving the KGS rank at 5d is very difficult. The current experimental > version of Crazy Stone wins 78% against Crazy Stone 2011. That's less than > one stone difference on KGS. But I am sure both Zen and Crazy Stone will > reach 6d in 2012. > > Rémi > >> >> -David >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- >>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of "Ingo Althöfer" >>> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 11:04 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [Computer-go] CrazyStone in the 5-dan footsteps of Zen >>> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> let us start the new year also in the mailing list. >>> It seems that Zen is finding a strong contender for >>> its position as leading bot on KGS. >>> Starting on December 29, Crazy Stone (by Remi Coulom) >>> has started a long playing session in KGS computer room, >>> and has now established a stable 5-dan rating. >>> >>> See the rating diagram for CrazyStone at >>> http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=crazystone >>> >>> and the list of games at >>> http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=crazystone&year=2011&month=12 >>> and >>> http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=crazystone&year=2012&month=1 >>> >>> Ingo >>> (wishes to see bots with 6-dan ranks on KGS >>> before the European Go Congress in July 2012) >>> -- >>> Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir >>> belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
