Re: [Computer-go] Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

2017-12-06 Thread Joshua Shriver
What about arimaa? On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:28 AM, "Ingo Althöfer" <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de> wrote: > It seems, we are living in extremely > heavy times ... > > I want to go to bed now and meditate for threee days. > >> DeepMind makes strongest Chess and Shogi programs with AlphaGo Zero method. >>

Re: [Computer-go] AlphaGo watch parties planned across U.S.

2017-05-22 Thread Joshua Shriver
Where can it be viewed online? -Josh On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Ray Tayek wrote: > http://www.usgo.org/news/2017/05/alphago-watch-parties-planned-across-u-s/ > > looks like 10:30 pm monday. > > thanks > > -- > Honesty is a very expensive gift. So, don't expect it from

Re: [Computer-go] ADMIN: Lists Have Moved

2017-01-23 Thread Joshua Shriver
Is there a specific site to go to to sign up on the new list or was everything migrated transparently? -Josh On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:50 AM, Xavier Combelle wrote: > Strangely enougth I received all the said messages > > > Le 23/01/2017 à 06:20, "Ingo Althöfer" a

[Computer-go] computergo.org domain

2016-09-26 Thread Joshua Shriver
My domain expires in 6 days, so heads up it's free to grab if anyone wants it. -Josh ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

Re: [Computer-go] computergo.org

2016-03-19 Thread Joshua Shriver
lists >> - the game AI forum >> - news sites >> - aggregators of tournament information, ICGA >> - aggregator or list of upcoming conferences >> - links to software and tools >> - lists of publications, Martin Müller's page, etc >> >> Gonçalo >

[Computer-go] computergo.org

2016-03-19 Thread Joshua Shriver
Does anyone have interest in that domain name? I'd be willing to transfer it to a new owner for free. It came up a year or so back and I grabbed it just in case but never used it. Rather see it go to someone who can use it rather than squat. It's already for another year. -Josh

Re: [Computer-go] computergo.org

2016-03-18 Thread Joshua Shriver
gt;>> On 18, Mar 2016, at 12:49 PM, Gonçalo Mendes Ferreira <go...@sapo.pt> wrote: >>> >>> I don't know how up-to-date computer-go.info is, but it appears a better >>> target for redirecting. >>> >>> - Gonçalo >>> >>> On 18/03/20

Re: [Computer-go] Wired: Google and Facebook Race to Solve the Ancient Game of Go With AI

2015-12-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
On a site note, I really feel bad for Kasparov. Seems like anytime there is a human vs computer game match the news always brings up Deep Blue. It has to feel bad to always see your name time and time again be used as a "loser" instead of the remarkable an legendary chess player he is. Just my

Re: [Computer-go] Wired: Google and Facebook Race to Solve the Ancient Game of Go With AI

2015-12-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
My money is on Google they already have a lot of algo's for pattern matching and analysis. Will be interesting to see how this pans out. Nice link :) -Josh On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Rémi Coulom wrote: >

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS again

2015-11-20 Thread Joshua Shriver
Thank you so much for running CGOS! Looks like it's running very smoothly and you are doing a great job. Would you like me to take down the boardspace site, and make a referal link to your CGOS? That way we can migrate and make sure people are all working on the right server. -Josh On Fri,

[Computer-go] CGOS boardspace

2015-11-19 Thread Joshua Shriver
I did a restart of the 9x9 and 19x19 as a test. Anyone mind testing it to see if you can connect? I left 13x13 alone since it just worked. Know a couple people have forked the cgos codebase which is wonderful! If anyone needs help Im willing to share info, or help best I can. I just had such a

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS again

2015-11-12 Thread Joshua Shriver
Thank you so much for running this! -Josh On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Hiroshi Yamashita wrote: > Hi Remi, > >> I plan to let it play forever. > > > That's awesome! > Strong program is nice benchmark and motivation for others > (of cource including me). > >> I noticed the

Re: [Computer-go] cgos 9x9

2015-07-03 Thread Joshua Shriver
It's on my agenda. Just finished moving 1/2 across country so I'll have time again to work on CGOS. -Josh ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS

2015-05-03 Thread Joshua Shriver
will see Detlef P.S.: I do not have tcl experience, so repacking would be try and error Am 03.05.2015 um 07:35 schrieb Joshua Shriver: Would you be willing to help me revitalize cgos.computergo.org? I can even give you ssh access. This we your server can sit on a dedicated IP

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS

2015-05-03 Thread Joshua Shriver
Detlef P.S.: I do not have tcl experience, so repacking would be try and error Am 03.05.2015 um 07:35 schrieb Joshua Shriver: Would you be willing to help me revitalize cgos.computergo.org? I can even give you ssh access. This we your server can sit on a dedicated IP/domain and we

Re: [Computer-go] Is CGOS 13x13 frozen for anyone else?

2015-05-03 Thread Joshua Shriver
Let me check the server, if need be will restart it. -Josh On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Igor Polyakov weiqiprogramm...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't been able to run my bot. ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [Computer-go] Is CGOS 13x13 frozen for anyone else?

2015-05-03 Thread Joshua Shriver
Ok restarted, hope it pops back up ok. Watching logs. -Josh On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Igor Polyakov weiqiprogramm...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't been able to run my bot. ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS

2015-05-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
Working on it :) On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Detlef Schmicker d...@physik.de wrote: Thanks for connecting! Am 02.05.2015 um 08:11 schrieb remi.cou...@free.fr: Great! Thanks for your efforts. I have just connected Crazy Stone, and it seems to be working. My favorite setting would be

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS

2015-05-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
Forgot to mention there is another table called anchors. Basically it just has gnugo and set to (1800?) if memory serves. This gets used in bayeselo for comparison calculations. -Josh ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS

2015-05-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
schrieb Joshua Shriver: Working on it :) On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Detlef Schmicker d...@physik.de wrote: Thanks for connecting! Am 02.05.2015 um 08:11 schrieb remi.cou...@free.fr: Great! Thanks for your efforts. I have just connected Crazy Stone, and it seems to be working. My

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS

2015-05-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
Would you be willing to help me revitalize cgos.computergo.org? I can even give you ssh access. This we your server can sit on a dedicated IP/domain and we can kinda refresh things a bit and have a clean work/server space. Just let me know. -Josh I'm still curious how you got around the

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS

2015-05-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
Also how good are you and un-tcl packing and rebuilding? Would LOVE to have native packages with the cgos.computergo.org hard coded if possible. Anyway would love to work with you. Side note, any OS X people here willing in the future to make OS X client/view compiles from the future github? If

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS future

2015-04-06 Thread Joshua Shriver
, but it should have a quick start and room for improvement later:) Detlef Am 03.04.2015 um 16:11 schrieb Joshua Shriver: Agree as well. But would like to offer both options. Planning to use github and make it 100% open source. -Josh On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Christoph Birk b

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS future

2015-04-03 Thread Joshua Shriver
Agree as well. But would like to offer both options. Planning to use github and make it 100% open source. -Josh On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Christoph Birk b...@obs.carnegiescience.edu wrote: On Apr 3, 2015, at 5:40 AM, folkert folk...@vanheusden.com wrote: My goal is to move away from

[Computer-go] CGOS future

2015-04-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
BTW I greatly appreciate all the input! and put in TODO.txt Since I do plan to make this open source and ON github. Guess I'm looking for helper developers I own like 12 servers so can host, while keeping the solid boardspace in tact. In fact I just bought 2 more servers, 1 real 1

[Computer-go] Learning from CGOS

2015-03-28 Thread Joshua Shriver
What elements did you like about CGOS and what do you wish for? I've begun writing a new version from scratch that isn't TCL based. With the aim for future use and also open source and open to public commits. -Josh ___ Computer-go mailing list

Re: [Computer-go] cgos.computergo.org down?

2015-03-06 Thread Joshua Shriver
the 13x13 server is working now. -Magnus On 2015-03-04 09:18, Urban Hafner wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Joshua Shriver jshri...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the heads up *sigh* I really am contemplating re-writing CGOS from scratch. TCL is just quirky as hell. Plus would make

Re: [Computer-go] cgos.computergo.org down?

2015-03-03 Thread Joshua Shriver
. After a connect the programs sit there, waiting forever. On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 09:55:33AM -0500, Joshua Shriver wrote: It was migrated back to the original boardspace. Please try there. cgos.boardspace.net -Josh On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:14 PM, folkert folk...@vanheusden.com wrote: Hi

Re: [Computer-go] cgos.computergo.org down?

2015-03-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
It was migrated back to the original boardspace. Please try there. cgos.boardspace.net -Josh On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:14 PM, folkert folk...@vanheusden.com wrote: Hi, It looks like cgos.computergo.org is down? All bots fail to connect over here. Folkert van Heusden -- You've probably

Re: [Computer-go] cgos.computergo.org down?

2015-03-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
Let me check. On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Christoph Birk b...@obs.carnegiescience.edu wrote: On Mar 2, 2015, at 6:55 AM, Joshua Shriver jshri...@gmail.com wrote: It was migrated back to the original boardspace. Please try there. cgos.boardspace.net The 9x9 and 19x19 servers never got

Re: [Computer-go] cgos.computergo.org down?

2015-03-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
I recycled them, hopefully the 13x13 will be back up at least. -Josh On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Christoph Birk b...@obs.carnegiescience.edu wrote: On Mar 2, 2015, at 6:55 AM, Joshua Shriver jshri...@gmail.com wrote: It was migrated back to the original boardspace. Please try

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS back online

2015-01-25 Thread Joshua Shriver
This is correct. The ELO ratings are based upon assuming Gnugo 3.7.3 has a rating of 1800 as an anchor. To generate new ratings it simply dumps all the games and runs bayeselo on all the games adjusting the rating on the gnugo games. -Josh On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Detlef Schmicker

Re: [Computer-go] CGOS back online

2015-01-15 Thread Joshua Shriver
Aye I'm still tinkering with it, and trying to get anchors on. Still having issues. :( -Josh On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Christoph Birk b...@obs.carnegiescience.edu wrote: On Jan 15, 2015, at 1:03 AM, Urban Hafner cont...@urbanhafner.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:45 PM,

[Computer-go] CGOS back online

2015-01-14 Thread Joshua Shriver
CGOS is back on boardspace.net and running. Please feel free to try and connect like you use to and let me know. I'll be monitoring it. It's just as it was when it was taken down after Mr. Daileys passing. I'm grateful for Dave Dyer for hosting it in the past, and for keeping a clean copy of

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'll try and get CGOS back online before this weekend. Technically it should be running now, but there were several issues. In order to use it now you take the cgos client for your architecture and you have to specify cgos.computergo.org manually since the binaries are hardcoded to the old

[Computer-go] CGOS anchor engines

2015-01-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
Anyone have a list of stable, freely downloadable Go engines that I could use as anchors? Name/download/ELO rating would be appreciated. Figured worse case I'd use gnugo for an anchor but would like to have a couple of varying strength. They can run on Windows or Linux. -Josh

Re: [Computer-go] alternative for cgos

2015-01-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
to send you its binary and password so that you can run it on your site. Hideki Joshua Shriver: CAEdmgvYkFd-tDGL7TxYd55_bWpNBK4gk_VLBNHpWto=xwb5...@mail.gmail.com: I'll try and get CGOS back online before this weekend. Technically it should be running now, but there were several issues. In order

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] CUDA code - can anybody host it?

2009-12-31 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'd be willing to host it. I use my site to host a lot of chess data right now so it wouldnt be a problem. http://www.olympuschess.com (no front page right now) usually people just go to http://www.olympuschess.com/egtb/ -Josh 2009/12/30 Christian Nentwich christ...@modeltwozero.com: All,

[computer-go] OT: AI article I found interesting

2009-10-24 Thread Joshua Shriver
Came across this today, and since this is also an AI oriented list thought some of you might enjoy it too. http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/future-tech/the-past-present-and-future-of-ai-643838 -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] OT: AI article I found interesting

2009-10-24 Thread Joshua Shriver
Aye, though I hope they announce when it'll be on TV so I can record it. -Josh 2009/10/24 Dave Dyer dd...@real-me.net At 10:12 AM 10/24/2009, Joshua Shriver wrote: Came across this today, and since this is also an AI oriented list thought some of you might enjoy it too. http

Re: [computer-go] matching 2 engines with sanity checks

2009-08-04 Thread Joshua Shriver
What do you mean by sanity checks? Such as legal moves? I wrote a chess engine vs engine app, could gut and reuse it for go and possible add legal move checking to it. -Josh On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Folkert van Heusden folk...@vanheusden.comwrote: Hi, CGOS does sanity checks on the

Re: [computer-go] matching 2 engines with sanity checks

2009-08-04 Thread Joshua Shriver
...@vanheusden.comwrote: Yes, that's it. Checks if an engine does an illegal ko, puts a piece where already is a piece, etc. On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:15:18PM -0400, Joshua Shriver wrote: What do you mean by sanity checks? Such as legal moves? I wrote a chess engine vs engine app, could gut and reuse

[computer-go] Go + code + environment

2009-05-23 Thread Joshua Shriver
I know with the Chess community, it's looked down upon to use others code w/ respect to competing in tournaments. I'm curious, how is it with Go? From my understanding, many projects are inter-linked, and even some of the highest programs are derivatives of other engines. In the chess world that

Re: [computer-go] AI at MUST

2009-03-30 Thread Joshua Shriver
Things like this is why I miss college. It would be really nice if they'd give the source for free. Know several of my friends would enjoy a good AI match locally. -Josh 2009/3/30 Robin Kramer kodr...@gmail.com I thought I would pass this along for my Alma mater. http://acm.mst.edu/~mstai/

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hardware limits

2009-01-14 Thread Joshua Shriver
When I was big into Chess programming this was a sore topic for me as well. I felt it was unfair for people competing in the WCCC to win if they had a cluster of of 100 PCs, a Cray, etc, when another person was using a P200mhz. I believe it was Dr. Hyatt that said this and it made a lot of sense

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hardware limits

2009-01-14 Thread Joshua Shriver
I must be out of touch, didnt know Rybka could run on a cluster :) last I checked he was about to release a smp version. Lots to catch up on. -Josh In chess, one team is firmly dominating (Rybka), and they have since last year also managed to acquire the best hardware (40 core cluster). This

[computer-go] Newbie

2008-11-18 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'm writing my engine from scratch and have a curious question. When my best friend an American 1dan lvl player (who has played in Japan) taught me the game. I love it. :) Though as I get more in depth, and programming wise, have no idea what rule set to follow. Not sure what I was taught

Re: [computer-go] Newbie

2008-11-18 Thread Joshua Shriver
You've been on this list a long time, haven't you? Yes :) I started by tinkering with Monte Carlo in VRML for a hardware solution, but aiming for a pure C, aimed at x86 engine. Anyway, I don't think there is much of a question that Chinese rules are much better for getting started with

Re: [computer-go] reference bots java and C

2008-10-20 Thread Joshua Shriver
Where is the C version for download? -Josh On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The C reference bot indeed had a simple bug. Everything was fine except for when the final move choice was made, I forgot to check for eye. I am surprised it played as strongly

Re: [computer-go] java reference bot

2008-10-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
Is the source available would be neat to see. -Josh On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I made a reference bot and I want someone(s) to help me check it out with equivalent data from their own program. There are no guarantees that I have this correct of

[computer-go] Comprehensive List of Docs

2008-10-10 Thread Joshua Shriver
Let this list, and all replies be a comprehensive list of websites and docs publically availble concerning Go dev. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] Computer Olympiad registration reminder: 11 days left

2008-06-05 Thread Joshua Shriver
Wish I could go, maybe next year. Amazed that the WCCC is being held at the same place just 3 days after. :) -Josh On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Rémi Coulom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Go programmers, I remind you that the deadline for early registration to the ICGA Computer Olympiad

[computer-go] Go programming and CUDA

2008-06-01 Thread Joshua Shriver
Anyone doing any research into using NVidia's CUDA sdk for Go programming? -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

[computer-go] Computer Go Forum

2008-05-03 Thread Joshua Shriver
Is there a computer go forum? This mailing list has been great, and may and the most powerful people are here. While email is nice, it would be nice to have a website to post questions, and an easy way to search responses. I really like talkchess.com for chess material, just wish there as a

Re: [computer-go] State of the art of pattern matching

2008-04-01 Thread Joshua Shriver
Do you have a link to those papers? -Josh My go-programming efforts are very much concentrated on patterns. (maybe I have been influenced by the Kojima-papers) ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
I've greatly enjoyed Aigo over the years. I have it on my palm and have upgrade hardware 3x and each time the author has kindly given me a new registration code for free. Think it only cost $8 and well worth it. Just my $0.02 -Josh ___ computer-go

[computer-go] Go board recap

2008-02-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
For whatever reason my email grep'ing skills haven't spawns answers to a previously emailed question. In chess we have xboard/winboard. What clients do you recommend for linux for GTP playing? -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list

[computer-go] gtp two way

2008-02-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
In addition to my previous email is there a cli based app for doing two way gtp based head on head competitions between two engines? -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 Study

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'd be willing to donate some CPU time. I run Ubuntu linux on a P4 3ghz with 1gig RAM. Can be configured with or w/o HT. (usually leave it off) -Josh On Jan 29, 2008 10:01 AM, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 9x9 scalability study has been a huge success with 35 cpu's participating and

Re: [computer-go] http://www.computer-go.info/ expired

2008-01-14 Thread Joshua Shriver
Getting Primefarm looks like a hosting site page. Agree account must have lapsed. -Josh On Jan 14, 2008 11:34 AM, Ian Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me, or did the http://www.computer-go.info/ site just expire? Ian ___ computer-go

Re: [computer-go] GPUs and go algorithms?

2007-12-06 Thread Joshua Shriver
I've been looking into GPGPU for several years now, there was even some buzz in the comp-chess stream but the downsides seemed to be to much. Think the big problem is the latency on the PCI/AGP bus. Though that might not be as much an issue now with PCI-x, etc. For more info I'd refer you to this

[computer-go] xboard like for Go

2007-12-04 Thread Joshua Shriver
Anyone recommend a good Go GUI for Linux? Not for bot matches and suchs but just to play gtp based engines. For chess I use xboard and it's wondeful, would love to find a similiar tool for Go. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list

[computer-go] GTP back to basics.

2007-12-04 Thread Joshua Shriver
Sorry to duplicate my question, I've been digging and digging in previous threads trying to find the answers that were posted. Wish computer-go had a google search :) Anyway, what is the minimal commands required to get an engine online via gtp? I've been working hard and hope to have an alpha

[computer-go] New engine? From a Chess programmer perspective.

2007-12-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
There was a thread on CCC (computer chess) about Go. An interesting post was made that linked to Leela, a Go engine and GUI written by the author of Deep Sjeng which is a moderate to high level chess engine. http://www.sjeng.org/leela.html Have any of you bought or tested the full version or

Re: [computer-go] New engine? From a Chess programmer perspective.

2007-12-02 Thread Joshua Shriver
Sure, it's a long URL though. http://64.68.157.89/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17341postdays=0postorder=asctopic_view=start=30 -Josh On Dec 2, 2007 10:42 AM, Russell Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 2, 2007 2:02 PM, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a thread on CCC (computer

Re: [computer-go] Micro-Matrix GO Machine

2007-11-30 Thread Joshua Shriver
There are computer go , or even just go Magazines? Any recommendations? -Josh On Nov 30, 2007 6:43 AM, Ben Lambrechts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was reading in the old computer go magazines. In number 2 page 27 I found the attached article. Why is nobody repeating this experiment? If

[computer-go] CGOS 19 down *think*

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua Shriver
I loaded up dog and a gnugo bot on cgos 19, it connects gives the username password and just sits there. Normally I'd get a string giving time till next round but seems stuck at the login. BTW are cgos posts still being made on computer-go or did it get migrated off to sourceforge. -Josh

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19 down *think*

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua Shriver
Thanks I put two bots in. dog and gnugo. -Josh On Nov 28, 2007 2:25 PM, Olivier Teytaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately I do not manage the 19x19 server or I would kill and restart. I kill and restart in a few minutes. ___ computer-go

[computer-go] FPGA to Hardware

2007-11-24 Thread Joshua Shriver
Ok so I've written a Go based processor in VHDL and seeking someplace *preferably cheap* to burn it into hardware. Any recommendations? Oh and btw did I mention CHEAP.. this is purely a 100% hobby and I'm poor. So *cheap* is probably more important than time and output as long as it acts like the

Re: [computer-go] FPGA to Hardware

2007-11-24 Thread Joshua Shriver
FPGA boards are expensive On Nov 24, 2007 5:48 PM, Chris Fant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want an ASIC fabricated? I don't think they do cheap. What's wrong with FPGAs? On Nov 24, 2007 4:07 PM, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok so I've written a Go based processor in VHDL

[computer-go] Obtaining Archvies

2007-11-22 Thread Joshua Shriver
Is there a place online or via this mailing list where you can request an archive of older posts? Preferably the entire set for offline reading and parsing? -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] KGS connection

2007-11-09 Thread Joshua Shriver
What are the rules for putting bots on kgs? Do you have the author or can anyone put up a gnugo bot? -Josh On Nov 9, 2007 4:12 AM, William Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TCP Port 2379 on goserver.gokgs.com This is an outbound connection from your system. No other connection is needed.

Re: [computer-go] KGS connection

2007-11-09 Thread Joshua Shriver
, Joshua Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the rules for putting bots on kgs? Do you have the author or can anyone put up a gnugo bot? -Josh On Nov 9, 2007 4:12 AM, William Shubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TCP Port 2379 on goserver.gokgs.com

Re: [computer-go] Solving Go

2007-11-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
You could go the route chess does with egtbs. First permutate every possible board with both stones, and start removing pieces one at a time. I wrote a permutation tool, but even with 3 and 4 size board the end data file was huge. -Josh On 11/7/07, Ben Lambrechts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [computer-go] Solving Go

2007-11-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
I just ran my perm application for 4x4 and it's reporting 43,046,721 unique board states and took 2m6.980s. Will try for 5 and 6. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] FW: Microsoft Research Lectures: Akihiro Kishimoto, Future University-Hakodate

2007-11-06 Thread Joshua Shriver
Great work Dave! Look forward to seeing it. -Josh On 11/6/07, David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akihiro has kindly agreed for us to film his talk and make it available. I should be able to put it online somewhere – I will let you know when this is done. Best, David From:

[computer-go] SGF naming convention.

2007-11-01 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'm writing a SGF parse and was wondering, the moves are listed as [pd] [dd], instead of a1 m10. Does the letters correspond to the number equivalent, taking into account you skip I? So I = 9 or J=9? -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] super-ko

2007-11-01 Thread Joshua Shriver
What is a super-ko? -Josh On 11/1/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About once every month or two someone sends me a private email that they have found a ko bug in CGOS and they point me to a game they lost due to superko. So far it's never happened that there was bug - they just

Re: [computer-go] CGOS on sourceforge

2007-11-01 Thread Joshua Shriver
I have my own webserver and would be willing to host an OSS project like cgos. Sourceforge is nice, but I thought one of the funky rules was that you had to assign the copyrights to the FSF or something. Either way, if CGOS was put under some kind of FOSS license it would be nice, and would allow

Re: [computer-go] CGOS on sourceforge

2007-11-01 Thread Joshua Shriver
, Joshua Shriver wrote: I have my own webserver and would be willing to host an OSS project like cgos. Sourceforge is nice, but I thought one of the funky rules was that you had to assign the copyrights to the FSF or something. I don't think this is true. I know as part of registration, you

[computer-go] Definition for monte carlo

2007-10-30 Thread Joshua Shriver
There has been a lot of talk about monte carlo and while I have the jist not sure exactly what it is? Would someone explain it? What I've read online is just to play a bunch of random games and pick the best one. Is there now real evaluation between the games or sorted method for generating

Re: [computer-go] BOINC

2007-10-29 Thread Joshua Shriver
Not that I'm aware, but the engine I'm working on will be parallelized. Depending on time and finances I'm even considering going down the route of custom fpga based boards but that's on the dream list so far, and isn't planned for RC1. -Josh On 10/29/07, Ben Lambrechts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[computer-go] CGOS 19 TC

2007-10-28 Thread Joshua Shriver
There is a lot of talk about time controls, and would like to add my input. I agree we should have longer time controls. I'm in the very early stages of my Go engine. With my current time line I dont anticipate having a running engine for at least a year. My design is a good bit different than

[computer-go] SGF Viewer for Linux

2007-10-27 Thread Joshua Shriver
Anyone recommend a free SGF viewer for Linux? I'd really like to find something like SCID but for Go. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-26 Thread Joshua Shriver
I'm not able to connect to the 19x19 server either. I even tried telnet'ing to it. Cgosviewer keeps telling me could not execute, but I dont believe it's a binary problem since if I just run the viewer it comes up (just doesnt connect to anything) Here is the tail of a traceroute. 8

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-26 Thread Joshua Shriver
Alrighty figured it out ./cgosviewer cgos.lri.fr 6919 Sorry was going from various emails, but it works now :) yuppy -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

[computer-go] MoGo

2007-10-25 Thread Joshua Shriver
Is MoGo a commercial or free program? Open or closed source? Linux version available? Thanks in advance :) -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-23 Thread Joshua Shriver
There was some chatter a while back concerning it. I offered to admin it, and possibly to host it. Though there was another taker so not sure what it's current status is. -Josh On 10/22/07, Christoph Birk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happened to the 19x19 CGOS revival? Christoph

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-14 Thread Joshua Shriver
mounted via ssh (ssh filesystem) However, I might have a solution now. I'm talking right now to David Doshay about using one his university machines for this. Can I get back to you on this in case it doesn't work out? - - Don Joshua Shriver wrote: What kind of bandwidth would be required

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
What kind of bandwidth would be required and can the webserver be different from the cgos host? If anything I can dedicated free webspace, subdomain, whatever. -Josh On 10/13/07, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We are having some trouble

[computer-go] Former Deep Blue Research working on Go

2007-10-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
Found this link and thought you all might find it interesting. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5552 Interesting part for me so far: At my lab at Microsoft Research Asia, in Beijing, I am organizing a graduate student project to design the hardware and software elements that will test the

Re: [computer-go] Former Deep Blue Research working on Go

2007-10-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
of this Benjamin Joshua Shriver schrieb: Found this link and thought you all might find it interesting. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5552 Interesting part for me so far: At my lab at Microsoft Research Asia, in Beijing, I am organizing a graduate student project to design the hardware

Re: [computer-go] Former Deep Blue Research working on Go

2007-10-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
Oops sorry didnt realise. On 10/7/07, Jeff Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:33 -0400, Joshua Shriver wrote: Found this link and thought you all might find it interesting. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5552 Umm, this article was linked to and discussed

[computer-go] Games Database

2007-09-29 Thread Joshua Shriver
Good Evening, Sorry, I think this may have been asked but can't find it anywhere in the list archives. Anyone know of a good place to get a large sgf game database? Preferably master games or at least 1dan level or higher? -Josh ___

[computer-go] CGOS down 09/23/07

2007-09-23 Thread Joshua Shriver
Can anyone connect to the CGOS server? Trying to run Dog on the 19x19 and it wont connect. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

[computer-go] GoGUI v 1.0.1

2007-09-22 Thread Joshua Shriver
Was looking in my links and noticed a new version of GoGUI was released recently. Sept 11, 2007. http://gogui.sourceforge.net/ -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

[computer-go] Tesuji

2007-09-10 Thread Joshua Shriver
Was reading a page about Go and came across this term. Anyone know what it means? Some googling yielded that it's some kind of tactic position. Though I might have misinterpreted it. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

[computer-go] Engine development for beginners

2007-07-27 Thread Joshua Shriver
Are there any really simple engines out there that know just enough to play a legal game of Go? Preferably C, Perl or Java? Some of the open source engines I've looked at are rather complex and not to friendly to a beginner. Kinda looking for the tscp of chess for go :) -Josh

[computer-go] Differences..

2007-07-26 Thread Joshua Shriver
What is the difference in Go and Mathematical Go? http://brooklyngoclub.org/jc/rulesgo.html Is Mathamatical Go a subset of Go as the rules look the same to me as regular go. -Josh ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

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