Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.
I'm voting for 2 time settings: One normal and one fast (so maybe 5 min and 1 min on 9x9). -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.
From what I can see, there is resistance to this idea - so what I'm going to do is to provide venues which are standalone but makes it possible later to add a time control.In other words for now there will be only 1 time control per board size but the server will be flexible enough that other venues can be added if the server ever gets popular enough that we have 40 or 50 players always on line. But they will be separate venues scheduled independently. - Don On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Isaac Deutsch i...@gmx.ch wrote: I'm voting for 2 time settings: One normal and one fast (so maybe 5 min and 1 min on 9x9). -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
[computer-go] building a combinatorial game theory bot
Hi, I've decided to build a go program based on combinatorial game theory, And I'm looking for any pointers or advice that might save me trouble later. I looked a little in the archives, and while there are references to CGT in a few places, I haven't seen any attempts to build a full engine around it. I found cgsuite at http://cgsuite.sourceforge.net/, which is very helpful for understanding the underlying algorithms and source code. Has anyone tried this before, and do they have some warnings or advice to share? My basic plan is this: In the beginning, partition the board into hard subgames maybe 3x3 blocks or similar. Calculate the temperature for each subgame, and play thermostrat as described. I don't expect this program to play very well, but it should be lightning fast: at each move, only the local subgame needs to be re-evaluated (and perhaps adjacent subgames, since captures may run across the games). Once that code works, I want to start on the hard part: dynamically resizing the subgames based on play. I imagine in the early game there's really only one game, and as midgame approaches the board slowly breaks up into mostly independant chunks. I haven't worked out the details of this yet, but my basic idea is to start with very small subgames and merge them when it seems likely two games affect each other, using some heuristics based on shared liberties, etc. Well, that's my idea, does it sound like it my work? -Tom Nelson ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
Re: [computer-go] building a combinatorial game theory bot
Sounds interesting. Have you considered learning these temperatures from pro games? -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.
Maybe we could agree that 1 day out of 7 in a week would be played on 6 times faster time controls. The same bots, connections, logins, the same number of games per week. Different rating of course. This would be a problem only for hardcoded bots with no time control. The advantage would be that we would see how different algorithms (bots) scale. If the ratings would be very similar for most bots, it would mean that we can get faster testing of new ideas. We would know which ideas can be tested of fast time control. Lukasz 2009/6/16 Don Dailey dailey@gmail.com: From what I can see, there is resistance to this idea - so what I'm going to do is to provide venues which are standalone but makes it possible later to add a time control. In other words for now there will be only 1 time control per board size but the server will be flexible enough that other venues can be added if the server ever gets popular enough that we have 40 or 50 players always on line. But they will be separate venues scheduled independently. - Don On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Isaac Deutsch i...@gmx.ch wrote: I'm voting for 2 time settings: One normal and one fast (so maybe 5 min and 1 min on 9x9). -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.
I vote for 2 venues, each optional. Separate rating pools is a must. Łukasz Lew wrote: Maybe we could agree that 1 day out of 7 in a week would be played on 6 times faster time controls. The same bots, connections, logins, the same number of games per week. Different rating of course. This would be a problem only for hardcoded bots with no time control. The advantage would be that we would see how different algorithms (bots) scale. If the ratings would be very similar for most bots, it would mean that we can get faster testing of new ideas. We would know which ideas can be tested of fast time control. Lukasz 2009/6/16 Don Dailey dailey@gmail.com: From what I can see, there is resistance to this idea - so what I'm going to do is to provide venues which are standalone but makes it possible later to add a time control.In other words for now there will be only 1 time control per board size but the server will be flexible enough that other venues can be added if the server ever gets popular enough that we have 40 or 50 players always on line. But they will be separate venues scheduled independently. - Don On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Isaac Deutsch i...@gmx.ch wrote: I'm voting for 2 time settings: One normal and one fast (so maybe 5 min and 1 min on 9x9). -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.
Whatever the eventual decision is - personally I would love a fast-play venue as an alternative, with separate rating - please don't worry too much about engines with fixed playouts, or engines that cannot handle certain time limits. The GTP client sitting between the engine and server will be able to protect the engine, by either keeping it out of games it cannot support or issuing it with reconfiguration commands. Christian Michael Williams wrote: I vote for 2 venues, each optional. Separate rating pools is a must. Łukasz Lew wrote: Maybe we could agree that 1 day out of 7 in a week would be played on 6 times faster time controls. The same bots, connections, logins, the same number of games per week. Different rating of course. This would be a problem only for hardcoded bots with no time control. The advantage would be that we would see how different algorithms (bots) scale. If the ratings would be very similar for most bots, it would mean that we can get faster testing of new ideas. We would know which ideas can be tested of fast time control. Lukasz 2009/6/16 Don Dailey dailey@gmail.com: From what I can see, there is resistance to this idea - so what I'm going to do is to provide venues which are standalone but makes it possible later to add a time control.In other words for now there will be only 1 time control per board size but the server will be flexible enough that other venues can be added if the server ever gets popular enough that we have 40 or 50 players always on line. But they will be separate venues scheduled independently. - Don On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Isaac Deutsch i...@gmx.ch wrote: I'm voting for 2 time settings: One normal and one fast (so maybe 5 min and 1 min on 9x9). -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ -- Christian Nentwich Director, Model Two Zero Ltd. +44-(0)7747-061302 http://www.modeltwozero.com ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Brian Sheppard wrote: Please don't do anything that decreases the frequency of games in order to accommodate programs that want to play on multiple venues. Keep venues strictly separate. Programs that want to play on multiple venues can just log in multiple times. I second that opinion. If there is a second venue, I'd prefer longer time controls. Christoph ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
