Re: [computer-go] Some beginner's questions concerning go bots

2008-05-10 Thread Magnus Persson
Quoting Carter Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1) How typically do UCT bots score simulations quickly? I am not too familiar with Chinese scoring rules. In the end of a random games. There are only Black stones and Black Eyes, as well as White stones and eyes. If your playouts are smart enough

Re: [computer-go] Some beginner's questions concerning go bots

2008-05-10 Thread Carter Cheng
Thanks everyone for the responses. My go skills are somewhat limited (only 6-7kyu on KGS) so hopefully I am not belaboring the obvious. I have a few followup questions- 1) What mathematically is a seki? I know this is a local draw but can it be determined statically at some point in all cases

Re: [computer-go] Some beginner's questions concerning go bots

2008-05-10 Thread Peter Drake
On May 10, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Carter Cheng wrote: Thanks everyone for the responses. My go skills are somewhat limited (only 6-7kyu on KGS) so hopefully I am not belaboring the obvious. I have a few followup questions- 1) What mathematically is a seki? I know this is a local draw but can

Re: [computer-go] Some beginner's questions concerning go bots

2008-05-10 Thread Evan Daniel
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Peter Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 10, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Carter Cheng wrote: Thanks everyone for the responses. My go skills are somewhat limited (only 6-7kyu on KGS) so hopefully I am not belaboring the obvious. I have a few followup questions- 1)

Re: [computer-go] Some beginner's questions concerning go bots

2008-05-10 Thread Carter Cheng
Thanks for the responses. 1) I guess for this seki question I was wondering if it was as easy to define as liveness without seki. The reason I am interested in this is I am curious about absolutely correct scoring functions and whether they currently cope well with advanced seki situations or

Re: [computer-go] Some beginner's questions concerning go bots

2008-05-10 Thread Jason House
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 20:23 -0700, Carter Cheng wrote: 3) Also thanks for the links. I have taken a look at some of the code. I am not sure I will be writing in Java or D and most likely will be implementing the system in something like C++. I am worried about Java's speed since it's