On 1/26/12 1:04 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote:
In August 1998, during the US Go Congress, Martin Mueller (5-d) and "Many Faces of Go" (without any Monte Carlo knowledge in those days) played an exhibition game. The bot had 29 handicap stones, but Martin beat it. Recently, dynamic komi helped Monte Carlo bots to play better in handicap situations. Now I set up a prize for the programmer of a bot that beats the old ManyFaces at 29 handicap stones: 1,000 Euro for the first bot that achieves this at least three times in a five games match. The offer ends on December 31, 2020. Details will be clarified in a forthcoming website. David Fotland is willing to provide the old bot - also for sparring sessions on KGS. Ingo. PS. sgf of the 1998 game can be found here: http://www.computer-go.info/h-c/index.html
Just fyi, when I attended the WYGC in Richmond BC, Canada in 2004, the kids were doing this, they had a contest going, they were giving MF 26 stones but the time was 1-3, and they were racing to see who defeated the program first. I am not sure how much of a factor the fast time was, nor how much stronger MF was in 2004 than in 1998.
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