Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 almost ready.

2007-05-22 Thread Ephrim Khong
Don Dailey wrote: > I would like to get 3 or 4 volunteers to run a copy of the Anchor. > [...] > The Anchors will be fixed at 1800 ELO. Just a thought: couldn't different speeds of the computers running the Anchors lead to differnt strengths? eph ___ c

Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-08 Thread Ephrim Khong
Don Dailey wrote: > 1. controller sends async_genmove > 2. controller (after some period of time) sends abort. > 3. engine responds to aysnc_genmove > 4. engine responds to the abort search A effect might be that the engine has a gamestate where it's move has taken place, while in the cont

Re: [computer-go] MC Go Effectiveness

2007-02-09 Thread Ephrim Khong
Unknown wrote: > BTW: once you choose the /8 gain by implementing canonicalization, > you'll probably want to implement /2 color-swaps, too. (but this will > only be profitable for libraries, not for 'history' such as in Don's > case.) The /2 with color-swaps would work fine with librarys that don

Re: [computer-go] Monte-Carlo Go Misnomer?

2007-02-07 Thread Ephrim Khong
Hello, David Doshay wrote: > On 3, Feb 2007, at 2:51 AM, Sylvain Gelly wrote: > >> the speed of the best simulation policy in MoGo is 0.6 * the speed >> of the uniform random one. > > I think that this is very good. You give up less than a factor of 2 > from uniform random and you probably get bet

Re: [computer-go] Can Go be solved???... PLEASE help!

2007-01-12 Thread Ephrim Khong
Peter Drake wrote: > There are a number of definitions of solved, ranging from "a program > exists that can beat any human" to "we can quickly determine, for any > position, the best move and the result under optimal play". In the > latter strong sense, I believe Go has only been solved up to 5x5,

Re: [computer-go] Unsigned random numbers in Java

2006-12-20 Thread Ephrim Khong
Peter Drake wrote: > I tried creating a random number generator > > java.util.Random rand = new java.util.Random() > > and then asking it for a random int > > rand.nextInt() > > which I would then take modulo the board size to choose a random > point. Note that "rand.nextInt(int n)" might be what

Re: [computer-go] Slow KGS computer Go Tournament idea

2006-12-20 Thread Ephrim Khong
hi, steve uurtamo wrote: > this might be a counterproductive idea, > but does anyone who mc's also ponder? a quick question from a non-nativ english speaker: what does "ponder" mean here? thanks eph ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go