Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to Zen!

2009-06-23 Thread Magnus Persson
Quoting Nick Wedd n...@maproom.co.uk: In message 20090622202905.utvbb8wkgk8cw...@webmail.phmp.se, Magnus Persson magnus.pers...@phmp.se writes I looked at the report and would like to give my opinion on why the programs played as they did in the commented game between Zen and Aya. In

Re: [computer-go] Position Rich in Lessons

2009-06-23 Thread Magnus Persson
Quoting Brian Sheppard sheppar...@aol.com: What komi did you use? It is nice to have the sgf in addition to the position. It is 7.5, and I do not have the SGF. I will try to create SGF for future posts, to make reproduction easier for all. Could it be that Pebbles have trouble seeing that

[computer-go] cgos client (python version) has moved

2009-06-23 Thread Christian Nentwich
All, FYI, the Python version of the CGOS client has moved into the main CGOS sourceforge area: http://cgos.sourceforge.net/client-python/ There is also a new release (0.3.0) out that supports multiple engines. Christian ___ computer-go mailing

[computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Hiroshi Yamashita
Hi, CGOS 19x19 has stopped for a while. Is server down? If there is no enough anchor resource, I can run anchor (gnugo). Regards, Hiroshi Yamashita ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] cgos client (python version) has moved

2009-06-23 Thread Don Dailey
Christian (and anyone else interested) in the new CGOS protocol: There are 2 minor change to the protocol. I'm hoping to do a test drive today as the new server is functional, though not 100% complete. Here are the two changes: First of all, when the server asks for the protocol, you can

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Don Dailey
I restarted the 19x19 server. Speaking of anchors ... For the new server I'm thinking about making some specified version of fuego the anchor on all venues. It seems to qualify as it has the following characteristics: 1. open source. 2. high strength to cpu resource utilization ratio I

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Hiroshi Yamashita
I restarted the 19x19 server. Thank you. I started my bot. I'm thinking about making some specified version of fuego I think using Fuego for anchor is good idea. One problem is maybe latest Fuego will be overrated from weak Fuego anchor. Regards, Hiroshi Yamashita

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Don Dailey
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Hiroshi Yamashita y...@bd.mbn.or.jpwrote: I restarted the 19x19 server. Thank you. I started my bot. I'm thinking about making some specified version of fuego I think using Fuego for anchor is good idea. One problem is maybe latest Fuego will be

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Williams
Fuego gets an advantage because when it plays the anchor, it is playing a version of itself. That's bad for the same reason that it's bad to test against a version of your own program -- inflated results. But I don't think it's a big deal. What about using both Fuego and Mogo as anchors?

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Hiroshi Yamashita
Can you explain this? I don't understand what you are saying. Once I ran both 1 core and 2 cores Aya on 19x19 CGOS, 2 cores Aya got high rating. But without 1 core Aya, 2 cores Aya could not get such a high rating. Remi also reported same phenomenon. [computer-go] CGOS Deflation or Self-Play

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Don Dailey
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Michael Williams michaelwilliam...@gmail.com wrote: Fuego gets an advantage because when it plays the anchor, it is playing a version of itself. That's bad for the same reason that it's bad to test against a version of your own program -- inflated results.

Re: [computer-go] cgos client (python version) has moved

2009-06-23 Thread Christian Nentwich
Hi Don, thank you, that is very useful. Definitely food for thought. I am probably going to have time to take a look at this tomorrow. If you have a developer copy of the server running on a private port, and can mail me that off-list, I'd like to give it a try. A few questions: - What is

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Don Dailey
Is there statistical proof that this is a major issue? I have not reviewed the reference to the forum post but I would like to say this: If you expect something to happen, you will notice it when it does even if what you think is happening really isn't.I'm not saying it didn't or doesn't

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Ben Shoemaker
Don, One possibility would be to have two open-source anchors (fuego and gnugo?) and ensure that a full-strength version would never be paired with it's own limited-strength anchor version. Ben. From: Don Dailey dailey@gmail.com To: computer-go

Re: [computer-go] CGOS 19x19 anchor

2009-06-23 Thread Don Dailey
The server has no way of knowing which programs are related. The user is free to choose any name and I don' t want to additional complexity to this. - Don 2009/6/23 Ben Shoemaker plan...@rocketmail.com Don, One possibility would be to have two open-source anchors (fuego and gnugo?) and

[computer-go] Zero exploration?

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Drake
There has been some talk here of using a zero exploration coefficient. Does this literally mean using the win ratio (with one dummy win per node) to decide paths through the MC tree? It seems that the best move could easily be eliminated by a couple of bad runs. Does this only work when

Re: [computer-go] Paper: Beta Distribution

2009-06-23 Thread Christian Nentwich
Peter, I tried to reproduce this, so I gave this a whirl and the win rate against UCB-Tuned1 with first move priority of 1.1 (like Mogo) was only 33%. That was using uniform random playouts. What was the playout policy you used for this? Christian On 18/06/2009 21:04, Peter Drake wrote:

Re: [computer-go] Paper: Beta Distribution

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Drake
I believe we used a uniform random policy (only don't play in your own pseudoeyes). The numbers probably won't be the same, but we've certainly replicated the qualitative improvement with version 6.05 of Orego, available here: https://webdisk.lclark.edu/drake/orego/ Peter Drake

Re: [computer-go] cgos client (python version) has moved

2009-06-23 Thread Christian Nentwich
And unrelated: - I've sometimes wanted to see who is currently playing on the server. Will this be possible (e.g. through a web pages that gets updated every few minutes)? The web page will be in PHP, so when you refresh the web page you will get the exact and current

Re: [computer-go] Zero exploration?

2009-06-23 Thread Magnus Persson
Yes, bad luck can be a problem. Solutions: 1) RAVE/AMAF do bias good moves such that exploration take place anyway 2) Biased priors that initially forces many playouts for good candidates, so that bad luck becomes less likely for moves that are rated high using patterns or other means. 3)

Re: [computer-go] Zero exploration?

2009-06-23 Thread Olivier Teytaud
There has been some talk here of using a zero exploration coefficient. Does this literally mean using the win ratio (with one dummy win per node) to decide paths through the MC tree? It seems that the best move could easily be eliminated by a couple of bad runs. Does this only work when using

Re: [computer-go] Zero exploration?

2009-06-23 Thread Álvaro Begué
2009/6/23 Olivier Teytaud teyt...@lri.fr: By the way, the conditions for consistency in Astar, which is quite related to Monte-Carlo Tree Search in my humble opinion, imply optimism in the sense that the value must be overestimated. UCT/MCTS is really similar to Astar without so-called close

[computer-go] fuego strength

2009-06-23 Thread Don Dailey
I'm trying now to get a rough idea about the strength of fuego and it's suitablity as the anchor player. Right now the numbers are very rough as I need more samples. I'm currently looking at: 1. 9x9 fuego at 1000 simulations 2. 19x19 fuego at 3000 simulations. I'm testing against the

[computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-23 Thread Hideki Kato
I'm running Fatman1, GNU Go and GNU Go MC version for 9x9 and two instances of GNU Go for 13x13, five programs in total, on a dual-core Athlon at home. I strongly believe current anchors are resource friendly enough for older pentium 3, 4 or even Celeron processors and not necessary being

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Williams
If it were me, I'd run all anchor candidates against the current CGOS to determine the anchor value to use for that anchor candidate. Hideki Kato wrote: I'm running Fatman1, GNU Go and GNU Go MC version for 9x9 and two instances of GNU Go for 13x13, five programs in total, on a dual-core

RE: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-23 Thread David Fotland
I'd also prefer to use gnugo as an anchor. Since fuego is under development, new versions will be playing with an odler version of itself. Fuego will win more often against its old version. I don't care about it distorting Fuego's rating, but it will distort the rating system. If new fuego is

[computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-23 Thread Martin Mueller
I agree with keeping the GnuGo anchor. My understanding is that Don wanted to bundle one or more fast programs with the server, so that some opponents would always be available. But I think that the rating of bundled programs should not be fixed. Right now we're relying on volunteers to

Re: [computer-go] Re: fuego strength

2009-06-23 Thread Don Dailey
If I were to change anchors I would of course carefully calibrate them. But I don't see that fuego is stronger than Gnugo at the low CPU levels I was hoping to run at. So there is no compelling reason right now to change anchors. - Don On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Michael Williams