Re: [computer-go] Re: Hahn system tournament and MC bots

2009-11-24 Thread Tapani Raiko
. ;-) Tapani -- Tapani Raiko, tapani.ra...@tkk.fi, +358 50 5225750 http://www.iki.fi/raiko/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hahn system tournament and MC bots

2009-11-24 Thread Tapani Raiko
Vlad Dumitrescu wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:18, Tapani Raiko pra...@cis.hut.fi wrote: One can also play a single game for instance with money bets based on the Hahn points, which makes Hahn go strategy relevant also for a single game. Just a thought: if the bet is I can beat

[computer-go] demonstration match

2009-10-21 Thread Tapani Raiko
for the opportunity! Tapani Raiko -- Tapani Raiko, tapani.ra...@tkk.fi, +358 50 5225750 http://www.iki.fi/raiko/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

[computer-go] Software for a supercomputer?

2009-10-09 Thread Tapani Raiko
need to use MPI. I am now asking for help. Do you know which program could be used for best performance (or most cores)? Is it easy to set up things running? (I need to decide soon whether I will organize it or not.) Thanks in advance, Tapani Raiko -- Tapani Raiko, tapani.ra...@tkk.fi, +358

Re: [computer-go] Dynamic komi at high handicaps

2009-08-13 Thread Tapani Raiko
, while random passing during playouts would make black play safe (rich men don't pick fights). Tapani Raiko Christoph Birk wrote: I think you got it the wrong way round. Without dynamic komi (in high ha ndicap games) even trillions of simulations with _not_ find a move that creates a winning

Re: [computer-go] Re: hex robot

2008-11-28 Thread Tapani Raiko
://mgame99.mg.funpic.de/downloads.php -- Tapani Raiko, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +358 50 5225750 http://www.cis.hut.fi/praiko/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] BOINC

2007-10-30 Thread Tapani Raiko
would need to allocate resources to different branches dynamically, so it would be more difficult to implement. In these three milestones, the different computers would do a lot of overlapping work with the deeper nodes, if I understood them correctly. -- Tapani Raiko, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +358 50

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

2007-10-12 Thread Tapani Raiko
Chris Fant wrote: Ho can I find Go vids on youtube? Searching for go obviously does nothing. Atari was also a good keyword here. There it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt1FvPxmmfE -- Tapani Raiko, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +358 50 5225750 http://www.cis.hut.fi/praiko

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

2007-10-08 Thread Tapani Raiko
a supercomputer, and claim to have the strongest computer Go player ever. :-) -- Tapani Raiko, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +358 50 5225750 http://www.cis.hut.fi/praiko/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [computer-go] Slightly improved MC algorithm

2007-02-28 Thread Tapani Raiko
and black areas) and so on. Similar heuristics might be useful deeper in the UCT where there are very few play-outs. -- Tapani Raiko, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +358 50 5225750 http://www.cis.hut.fi/praiko/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer

Re: [computer-go] Slightly improved MC algorithm

2007-02-28 Thread Tapani Raiko
. (Go81 only has 3x3 patterns.) There is also a GTP-supporting .exe so you can test the strength without a Palm. On a PC the two playouts don't take much time. ;-) http://www.cis.hut.fi/praiko/go169/ -- Tapani Raiko, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +358 50 5225750 http://www.cis.hut.fi/praiko

Re: [computer-go] Monte Carlo (MC) vs Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC)

2007-02-07 Thread Tapani Raiko
I could see a case where it is possible to reduce a variance of a single variable even in the 0-1 case. Let us say that black has about 5% chances of winning. If we could (exactly) double the chances of black winning by changing the nonuniform sampling somehow (say, enforce bad moves by

Re: [computer-go] Monte Carlo (MC) vs Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC)

2007-02-06 Thread Tapani Raiko
white win, which is realistic since white is assumed to be a stronger player, anyway. To summarise, I agree that there are links to other MC research, and they should be explored. -- Tapani Raiko, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +358 50 5225750 http://www.cis.hut.fi/praiko

Re: [computer-go] Is skill transitive? No.

2007-01-31 Thread Tapani Raiko
Would the results of kgs (or similar) games being appropriate if one considered only un-handicapped games? Yes, I think so. At least when considering only those who have played lots of games against lots of opponents. I imagine that the most significant intransitivity would be would be in

Re: [computer-go] Re: Interesting problem

2007-01-04 Thread Tapani Raiko
to capture and should thus get the first move. One more vote for simple rules. :) -- Tapani Raiko, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +358 50 5225750 http://www.cis.hut.fi/praiko/ ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org