Re: [computer-go] Hahn system tournament and MC bots

2009-11-22 Thread Robert Jasiek
Don Dailey wrote: > this simplification of the rules Simplification? It does not even simplify strategy. -- robert jasiek ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] Hahn system tournament and MC bots

2009-11-22 Thread Don Dailey
I'm pretty sure that this simplification of the rules would favor computers. Of course that would require some program modifications, primarily counting points on the board instead of wins and losses. These rules basically takes out some (or at least reduces) elements of the game that humans are

[computer-go] Hahn system tournament and MC bots

2009-11-22 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
A Go tounrmaent with Hahn system has been retransmeted on kgs/eurogo TV With these rules, the actual count makes a difference (as opposed to just win/lose) Winning by >40.5gets 100 points ...... Losing by >40.5gets 0 point

[computer-go] Distributed opening book

2009-11-22 Thread Ben Lambrechts
Hi, After reading "Grid Coevolution for Adaptive Simulations: Application to the Building of Opening Books in the Game of Go". and "Towards Opening Book Learning" I started to think... Would the creation of a 9x9 OB with the MCTS-method not be an ideal project for distributed computing. I was thi

Re: [computer-go] Shodan Go Bet: Nov '09 Update

2009-11-22 Thread Don Dailey
It's too early for computers to win bets like this - but it will eventually happen. We just need to wait a few more years which will come and go before you realize it. - Don 2009/11/22 terry mcintyre > "Any hardware which can be brought to the playing site" would presumably > include today's

Re: [computer-go] Shodan Go Bet: Nov '09 Update

2009-11-22 Thread terry mcintyre
"Any hardware which can be brought to the playing site" would presumably include today's baby supers, which include a few dozen cores in a desktop box. Would it include whatever fits into Sun's datacenter-in-a-shipping-container? I am less optimistic about the computer's prospects now than I w

[computer-go] Shodan Go Bet: Japanese and other languages

2009-11-22 Thread Darren Cook
There is a Japanese version of the go bet page here: http://dcook.org/gobet/index.ja.html I'm very grateful to Yasuhiro Ike-san for the translation. I thought I had a Chinese translation arranged, but that seems to have fallen through. I'm especially interested in Chinese and Korean translation

[computer-go] Shodan Go Bet: Nov '09 Update

2009-11-22 Thread Darren Cook
The Shodan Go bet page has been up six months now: http://dcook.org/gobet/ In the voting, 128 people have now responded. For a while the three choices (Computer Wins vs. Too Close To Call vs. John Wins) were getting equal numbers of votes. But recently John has pulled ahead, with 42% thinking