Re: [computer-go] December KGS Computer Go tournament: full boards, fast

2007-11-27 Thread Petr Baudis
Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 06:21:02PM +, Nick Wedd wrote: The December 2007 KGS computer Go tournament will be next Sunday, December 2nd, in the Asian evening, European morning and American night, starting at 09:00 UTC (GMT) and ending about 13:00 UTC (GMT). Each division will be a

Re: [computer-go] December KGS Computer Go tournament: full boards, fast

2007-11-27 Thread Chris Fant
are there any limits (set by either rules or ethiquette) on power of the machines running the bots? Or noone cares? I wonder if it's ok to use a 16-core opteron-packed machine to run the bot or something of the scale of a reasonable modern desktop would be more appropriate. There are lots

Re: [computer-go] December KGS Computer Go tournament: full boards, fast

2007-11-27 Thread Nick Wedd
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi, On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 06:21:02PM +, Nick Wedd wrote: The December 2007 KGS computer Go tournament will be next Sunday, December 2nd, in the Asian evening, European morning and American night, starting at 09:00 UTC

Re: [computer-go] December KGS Computer Go tournament: full boards, fast

2007-11-27 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Nick Wedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes are there any limits (set by either rules or ethiquette) on power of the machines running the bots? Or noone cares? I wonder if it's ok to use a 16-core opteron-packed machine to run the bot

Re: [computer-go] December KGS Computer Go tournament: full boards, fast

2007-11-27 Thread Don Dailey
Well said Nick. You asked a good question. It looks like the number of cores is now about to replace the intrinsic speed of the processors although they will still continue to get faster - but perhaps at a much slower rate. It will be interesting to see what happens.For some reason it

[computer-go] December KGS Computer Go tournament: full boards, fast

2007-11-26 Thread Nick Wedd
The December 2007 KGS computer Go tournament will be next Sunday, December 2nd, in the Asian evening, European morning and American night, starting at 09:00 UTC (GMT) and ending about 13:00 UTC (GMT). Each division will be a 6-round Swiss with 19x19 boards and 18 minutes each sudden death,