Re: [computer-go] IEEE Spectrum article by Deep Blue creator

2007-10-03 Thread Hideki Kato
David Fotland: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Many Faces does not use null move, but does extensive caching of life and death and other tactical results. The problem of such caching scheme is when and how programs can make correctly the cache be dirty (ie, invalid). It may be very hard even for human

[computer-go] Change of dates of 2008 World Computer Chess Championship, Computer Olympiad, and International Conference on Computer Games.

2007-10-03 Thread Winands M (MICC)
Change of dates of 2008 World Computer Chess Championship, Computer Olympiad, and International Conference on Computer Games. Our Chinese hosts for the 2008 ICGA events have just advised us that it has become necessary to change the dates of our events. The reason is that, recently, the

Re: [computer-go] October KGS Computer Go tournament: small boards, slow

2007-10-03 Thread Jason House
Is it possible to update http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/names.html with details about the newer entrants? (kago, pagebot, and scottbot) PS: The double-entries for HBotSVN, hb05, and HouseBot are still on that page. The later set of descriptions that combine all HouseBot variants into one block

Re: [computer-go] October KGS Computer Go tournament: small boards, slow

2007-10-03 Thread Nick Wedd
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Is it possible to update http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/names.html with details about the newer entrants? (kago, pagebot, and scottbot) PS: The double-entries for HBotSVN, hb05, and HouseBot are still on that page.  The later set

Re: [computer-go] Mogo: nakade

2007-10-03 Thread Sylvain Gelly
Hi Darren, Thank you for playing (I hope you enjoyed :)) and your report. Sylvain, can you explain more about why it has this particular weakness? What you describe is exactly the issue I describe in the FAQ. From my analysis this come from the fact that the simulations are more likely to make

Re: [computer-go] October KGS Computer Go tournament: small boards, slow

2007-10-03 Thread Phil G
Please add my open source bot to the tournament: Bot Name: GoTraxx KGS: GoTraxx Author: Philipp Garcia Division: Formal on 9x9. Website: www.gotraxx.org BTW. What time exactly on Oct 7th? I can't tell on the web site. I'm in California.___

[computer-go] The first Go UEC cup

2007-10-03 Thread Shunsuke SOEDA
Dear all, As most of you know, Gifu Challenge was canceled for this year. Instead, there will be a computer go competition held by the Cognitive Science and Entertainment (EC) Research Station of the University of Electro-communications. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide prize money for

RE: [computer-go] IEEE Spectrum article by Deep Blue creator

2007-10-03 Thread David Fotland
It's a very difficult problem, but I have something that works reasonably well. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hideki Kato Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:27 AM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] IEEE Spectrum