Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-28 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le mercredi 28 février 2007 16:49, Oliver Lewis a écrit : On 2/23/07, David Doshay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22, Feb 2007, at 9:03 PM, alain Baeckeroot wrote: ... I made very slow progress to formalize this ... But the whole stuff is rather coherent in my mind. Then I envy you.

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-28 Thread David Doshay
I do agree with Alain that beginners mix too little and random players too much. I am most intrigued with the recent results from Dave Hillis, where he shows what I have been calling a move towards a transition temperature with a selected set of heuristics in the playout. When he is willing to

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-28 Thread David Doshay
One more thought: It would be interesting to see the degree to which following a proximity heuristic leads to the renormalizations looking cold. Cheers, David On 28, Feb 2007, at 11:07 AM, David Doshay wrote: I do agree with Alain that beginners mix too little and random players too much.

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-26 Thread Don Dailey
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 11:11 +0900, igo wrote: If computers ever become world champion strength at 19x19, there will probably have been some simplification that makes this possbile, I don't see it being a (direct) result of faster computers or more processors. So in this situation it

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-25 Thread igo
Hello Jacque: Thanks for the comments. my point is that 19x19 is the optimal size for human abilities. I don't think so. 19x19 is merely the size of Go originally. for human abilities in Go, 19x19, 21x21...99x99 are about the same. ... The entire fuseki theory is board size dependent.

RE : Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-25 Thread achille audouard
no englich me french igo [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello Jacque: Thanks for the comments. my point is that 19x19 is the optimal size for human abilities. I don't think so. 19x19 is merely the size of Go originally. for human abilities in Go, 19x19, 21x21...99x99 are about the same.

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-25 Thread Don Dailey
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 02:50 +0900, igo wrote: My point is simple. for example, [MoGo] can beat a 3d person at 9x9 now. but the same person(3d) will beat [MoGo] at 13x13 easily at this time. Will you agree ? when [MoGo] can beat the same person at 13x13, then the same person will beat

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-24 Thread Jacques Basaldúa
Hello igo: igo wrote (on behalf of Making the board bigger would probably make the game weaker for humans. I presume the day a computer is world champion, increasing board size would give the computer even more advantage.): I presume exact the opposite way. Of course, who knows. This is

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-23 Thread Jacques Basaldúa
Ray Tayek wrote: it's also hard to see why 21x21 would be boring (i can see 17x17 being too simple in some sense). There is also the length of a game. 21x21 is 22% bigger in terms of cells. Professional players can work two days on a 19x19 game. Making the board bigger would probably make

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-23 Thread igo
Making the board bigger would probably make the game weaker for humans. I presume the day a computer is world champion, increasing board size would give the computer even more advantage. (Againstthe common search-width based intuition.) I presume exact the opposite way. The day a

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-23 Thread dhillismail
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics Your analogy with physics encourage me to share other physical analogies. 1/ Cooling the simulation could be done by controlling

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-23 Thread dhillismail
@computer-go.org Sent: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics This looks like the only plausible precondition: given a board of n points, n-1 are filled with the same color, and the opposing player plays the nth point, capturing the lot. Hopefully, any player of modest

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-22 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le jeudi 22 février 2007 01:16, David Doshay a écrit : It is pretty clear to me that, if the analogy to MC simulations in magnets is of any value, the temperature of the Go game you show is hotter than optimal. If the temperature were at the transition temperature, then each of the

Re: [computer-go] Big board, ++physics

2007-02-22 Thread Ray Tayek
At 09:03 PM 2/22/2007, you wrote: 4/ shape/size resonance (un)fortunately the 19x19 size is just the critical size to have problems. -17x17 is too small, corners influence is too strong, it is quickly possible to take the border. (= 3 bubbles) -21x21 is too wide, it is not possible to