FUEGO BEATS PRO IN 9X9 EVEN GAME: The
Fuego computer go program won a 9x9 even game against 9-dan
professional Chou Chun-Hsun (Zhou Junxun, left) at the Human vs.
Computer Program Competition (FUZZ-IEEE 2009) event held August 21-22
on Jeju Island, Korea. Fuego played three official games
with Zhou, winning the first - taking white -- by 2.5 points. This is
the first time that a computer program has won a 9x9 game on even
against a top-ranked player. "Everybody considers the win of Fuego in
9x9 as very good," said Olivier Teytaud, leader of the MoGo team. "No
error from the pro, just a perfect play by the computer." Click here for
the game record. The Fuego team includes Markus Enzenberger, Broderick
Arneson, Rich Segal (IBM) and Gerry Tesauro (IBM). The Japanese program
Zen also put in a very strong performance, beating amateur Chang
Shen-Su 6d with both Black and White on 9x9. The other two computer
participants, MoGo and Many Faces of Go, did not win any games; click here for
full results. "I would like to thank everyone who helped," says Martin
Mueller, "especially Steve Sutphen for getting Fuego set up on the
cluster, and Jonathan Schaeffer for financial support, and for allowing
us to use his machine with its 80 cores." - photo of Chou Chun-Hsun by Jimmy Lin
Terry McIntyre <terrymcint...@yahoo.com>
"And one sad servitude alike denotes
The slave that labours and the slave that votes" -- Peter Pindar
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