[computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Ben Lambrechts
-- Forwarded message -- From: Giudici Raphaël raphael.giud...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:53 PM Subject: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server To: gn...@gnu.org Cc: campai...@fsf.org Hi, I contacted the FSF to talk about the possible creation of an open

Re: [computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Joshua Shriver
If you get a team together I'd be willing to help out with development, technical writing, and design. Would guess or hope that the server would be written in C or C++. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Dave Dyer dd...@real-me.net wrote: Back up a bit - what's your primary interest ?  I can readily believe that not many near blind play Go on the internet now, but what makes you believe a properly supportive server would bring them out of the woods, or that

Re: [computer-go] Pachi/fuego GnuGo hybrid

2010-01-18 Thread Petr Baudis
Hi! On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:14:59AM +, petri.t.pitka...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried doing pachi/Fuego + GnuGo hybrid slightly in way Many FAces is done? If I understood correctly Manyfaces is mostly a plausible move generator. And serac is widened via the RAVE. So simplest

Re: [computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Petr Baudis
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:00:44AM +0100, Ben Lambrechts wrote: At first I tried to get in touch with the dev person behind KGS to discuss possible modifications to make kgs usable by near blind people, but he refuses to talk about opening the client, the protocol or the server. I wanted to

[computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Dave Dyer
(i) IGS is derivation of NNGS, which is free software (GPLv2)! It has even seen some slight development in past few years. I don't think that's correct - NNGS was a functional copy of IGS created by duplicating the published (telnet based) interfaces. It eventually was open sourced before it

Re: [computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Nick Wedd
In message 88fb322c100118q4420480erfaeb5965f0a13...@mail.gmail.com, Ben Lambrechts benedic...@fedoraproject.org writes -- Forwarded message -- From: Giudici Raphaël raphael.giud...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:53 PM Subject: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real

RE: [computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Krames
Hi Benjamin Teuber from Germany works for IGS to make the official client more attractive to western players, e.g. he plans to add a kgs-like-review-tool. You can tell him your wishes (like making igs usable for near blind people) and if possible he will add them to glgo in the future.

Re: [computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Petr Baudis
Hi! BTW, thanks to Ben for forwarding the original mail. On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:02:52PM +0100, Wolfgang Krames wrote: Benjamin Teuber from Germany works for IGS to make the official client more attractive to western players, e.g. he plans to add a kgs-like-review-tool. You can tell

RE: [computer-go] benchmark tests for static evaluation functions

2010-01-18 Thread Thomas Wolf
Thanks for the comment. On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, David Fotland wrote: I think you can only evaluate static evaluation in the context of a search and a tournament between programs. You could start with a simple 1-ply search and play against gnugo. Strength in life and death or predicting pro

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Adriaan van Kessel
computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org wrote on 18-01-2010 11:34:52: (i) IGS is derivation of NNGS, which is free software (GPLv2)! It has even seen some slight development in past few years. I don't think that's correct - NNGS was a functional copy of IGS created by duplicating the

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Adriaan van Kessel
computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org wrote on 18-01-2010 09:21:43: Back up a bit - what's your primary interest ? I can readily believe that not many near blind play Go on the internet now, but what makes you believe a properly supportive server would bring them out of the woods, or that

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Petr Baudis
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:43:34PM +0100, Adriaan van Kessel wrote: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org wrote on 18-01-2010 11:34:52: (ii) NNGS might be used as possible base of a modern go server. The obvious advantage is that _right now_ you have something that you can (in theory)

Re: [computer-go] Pachi/fuego GnuGo hybrid

2010-01-18 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 18/01/2010 à 10:54, Petr Baudis a écrit : it would be great to share other information like LD and semeai critical moves; perhaps GNUGo even provides interface to get these as well. yes, via gtp you can easyly see in gogui :-), and maybe more with gnugo tool (regress.pike ?) Alain

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Adriaan van Kessel
computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org wrote on 18-01-2010 18:16:28: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:43:34PM +0100, Adriaan van Kessel wrote: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org wrote on 18-01-2010 11:34:52: (ii) NNGS might be used as possible base of a modern go server. The obvious advantage

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread terry mcintyre
If accessibility is the only criterion, a client would do the trick; it would need an open protocol. It's been a bit of an inconvenience that KGS does not publish an open-protocol interface. As for other things we'd like to see improved, we could build a list. My pet peeve is the KGS score

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Williams
Even though KGS is not open, you can still reverse engineer it, right? Why not create an accessible web interface to KGS? terry mcintyre wrote: If accessibility is the only criterion, a client would do the trick; it would need an open protocol. It's been a bit of an inconvenience that KGS

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread terry mcintyre
If the protocol isn't open, it can be changed. It is believed that wms did just that to frustrate open-source clients. There may be some justification to his argument that buggy clients were causing problems with his server. From: Michael Williams michaelwilliam...@gmail.com Even though KGS

Re: [computer-go] Pachi/fuego GnuGo hybrid

2010-01-18 Thread David Doshay
The SlugGo team is working towards a Fuego/GG hybrid. But just as our cluster distributed GG added a few new evaluation functions, we are working on an additional evaluation module for Fuego. Work had been slow, but we intend complete the addition to Fuego prior to integrating that into

[computer-go] Re: Pachi/fuego GnuGo hybrid

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Mueller
Has anyone tried doing pachi/Fuego + GnuGo hybrid slightly in way Many FAces is done? We have an experimental version that uses knowledge from my old program Explorer in Fuego. It gives a bonus in terms of a number of won simulations to moves considered good by the knowledge. As shown in

Re: [computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Petr Baudis pa...@ucw.cz wrote:  (i) IGS is derivation of NNGS, which is free software (GPLv2)! It has even seen some slight development in past few years. ... As tempting as it is, I find it unlikely that incremental improvements on the current crop of

Re: [computer-go] Fwd: [gnugo-devel] (GNU) Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Giudici Raphaël wrote: I contacted the FSF to talk about the possible creation of an open source real time Go server backed up by the FSF. According to John Sullivan, they are interested by such project and advised me to get in touch with your team. Perhaps using the GGZ Gaming Zone

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Nick Wedd
In message 4b54a0f7.1090...@gmail.com, Michael Williams michaelwilliam...@gmail.com writes Even though KGS is not open, you can still reverse engineer it, right? Why not create an accessible web interface to KGS? Obvious answer: because with the next KGS server upgrade, your client would

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Petr Baudis
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:57:11PM -0500, Michael Williams wrote: Even though KGS is not open, you can still reverse engineer it, right? Why not create an accessible web interface to KGS? I have been doing that with http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~pasky/cgoban-h/. It's a huge amount of work to do _and_

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread steve uurtamo
As for other things we'd like to see improved, we could build a list. My pet peeve is the KGS score estimator, which is often wildly wrong. an SE can't be any smarter than a computer player that runs in the amount of time that you're willing to wait for the SE to calculate*. so don't expect

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Petr Baudis
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 06:21:40PM -0500, steve uurtamo wrote: As for other things we'd like to see improved, we could build a list. My pet peeve is the KGS score estimator, which is often wildly wrong. an SE can't be any smarter than a computer player that runs in the amount of time that

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 18/01/2010 à 18:37, terry mcintyre a écrit : My pet peeve is the KGS score estimator, which is often wildly wrong. The best thing to do would be to remove the score estimator which prevent people from thinking. I bet there would be much less stupid chat during games whithout it :) Alain.

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread terry mcintyre
When I say the SE is wildly off, I'm not referring to positions which only a pro could evaluate but positions which a double-digit kyu player could correctly evaluate. ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] Re: Open source real time Go server

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Williams
Your point is obvious but that's a horrible proof since there are usually more than one legal moves from which to chose (that means it takes more time). steve uurtamo wrote: As for other things we'd like to see improved, we could build a list. My pet peeve is the KGS score estimator, which is

[computer-go] Re: Pachi/fuego GnuGo hybrid

2010-01-18 Thread Hideki Kato
I've tried that idea, using GNU Go as a candidate move generator, a few years ago but no success though it's not an exhaustive evaluation. The code (for Linux) is available at my web http://www.gggo.jp. That feature is #if'ed by USE_ORACLE in the source code of GGMC Go or Fudo Go. #GG here