RE: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS?

2006-12-11 Thread Edward de Grijs
From: David Fotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to see 30 minutes per side, since that's pretty typical for human games. I'd like to see 10 minutes per side, obtaining an accurate rating more quickly, although I realize that shorter times are less suited for MC based programs. Is it an

RE: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS?

2006-12-12 Thread Edward de Grijs
Just realize that with 30 minutes for each side, each round will be 1 hour, so for a reasonable rating (which is debatable) of 170 games this will mean that one computer has to compete one complete week continuously. I naturally will use the 19x19 server, but it will be not often that I can play

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

2006-12-20 Thread Edward de Grijs
Ah. Orego will have the ponder feature soon. I am busy to include pondering for FirstGo. Should be ready within a few days. Edward. On Dec 20, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Don Dailey wrote: ponder means to use the opponents time to think - Don On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 23:56 +0100, Ephrim Khong

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

2007-02-02 Thread Edward de Grijs
etc.) And: is the answer the same for 9x9 and 19x19 boards? Thanks, Edward de Grijs _ Nieuw: Live Mail. Mis het niet en profiteer direct van de voordelen! http://imagine-windowslive.com/mail/launch/default.aspx?Locale=nl-nl

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

2007-02-03 Thread Edward de Grijs
From: Sylvain Gelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] I truly believe that we can make big steps in this direction and getting much better (real not simulation) players that way. Hi all, Thanks for answering Sylvain. I find MoGo already very impressive, so it surprised me that you think that more big steps

RE: [computer-go] Time Control for the new CGOS

2007-03-28 Thread Edward de Grijs
From: Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am considering to change the time control when I change over officially to 5 minutes instead of 10. 5 minutes seems more than adequate for the Monte Carlo programs which play quite strongly even at 2 minutes per game. Hello all, I prefer very short

RE: [computer-go] Binary release of MoGo

2007-09-10 Thread Edward de Grijs
Hi Sylvain and all, Thank you very much for sharing the binaries. I am very interested in a windows binary to use MoGo as an extra sparring partner, (I cannot use linux at this moment), I do not mind if the binary is slower, because even then the MoGo program will be stonger then my

[computer-go] Mertin's private 9×9 19×1 9 tournament

2007-10-09 Thread Edward de Grijs
Hello all, is something known about this tournament yet? In http://www.computer-go.info/events/future.html is stated that this tournament would take place this year in Germany, but so far no news. Does somebody have more information? Edward

RE: [computer-go] Mertin's private 9×9 19×19 tournam ent

2007-10-13 Thread Edward de Grijs
Hi Stefan and all, I really want to ask Eric van der Werf, if I could get a copy of his program steenvreter, which won gold in Amsterdam 2007. Do you have some contact with him or with some other programmers in the Netherlands? No, not directly. I suspect they are reading this

RE: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-28 Thread Edward de Grijs
Hi all, For CGOS 19x19 I prefer a short time control (10min/game) because: 1) More quickly a more accurate rating can be established. I do think that the rating differences inbetween programs due to a shorter time setting do not change significantly (more than a few stones),

RE: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-28 Thread Edward de Grijs
Subject: RE: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 11:54 +0100, Edward de Grijs wrote: Hi all, For CGOS 19x19 I prefer a short time control (10min/game) because: 1) More quickly a more accurate rating can be established. I agree with Don. 10 minutes

RE: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-28 Thread Edward de Grijs
If I combine some reactions so far I understand that the main motivation to have 30min/game or longer time controls is that that is more comparable to the pace of humans, and that is is more easy for some new programs (not MC based) I can imagine that some humans will argue that blitz

RE: [computer-go] Re: Update of MoGo binary release, and windows version available!

2007-12-05 Thread Edward de Grijs
maintaining full control as a server? Thanks, Edward. Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:17:03 +0900 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: Update of MoGo binary release, and windows version available! To: computer-go@computer-go.org Adding quit does not help? Edward de

RE: [computer-go] programs at the US Go Congress

2007-12-05 Thread Edward de Grijs
What would get YOU to bring your program to the Congress? What would you like to do once you are there? Cheers, David Hi, due to my limited funding: compensate the travelling costs, or make it possible for me to send the program, so it can run on a local computer there, or by remote

RE: [computer-go] Re: Update of MoGo binary release, and windows version available!

2007-12-05 Thread Edward de Grijs
Hi to all, Can someone help me with this problem, for which I cannot find a solution: I am trying to run MoGo in an automatic way, using the cygwin toolkit. The problem in its simplest form is this: If I use MoGo on the command line, typing the commands which are send by stdin (i suppose) it

RE: [computer-go] Re: Update of MoGo binary release, and windows version available! (repost)

2007-12-06 Thread Edward de Grijs
Thanks Hideki, Chris and Jacques for your replies. Hideki wrote: Then, you can make a very simple program that passes a file to stdout first and passes stdin to stdout after the end-of-file of the file. And use it as a.out file | mogo arguments. Is this not the way a tail -f works? This is

RE: [computer-go] Re: Update of MoGo binary release, and windows version available!

2007-12-07 Thread Edward de Grijs
Hi, I have a solution now, thanks for all the help. For those interested, the solution for me: I use a ruby script (thanks Chris), to open de mogo program (with IO.popen) and with gets en puts it is possible to read the commands from stdin, and outputs these commands to mogo. Obvously ruby

RE: [computer-go] Re: A thought about ratings.

2007-12-10 Thread Edward de Grijs
Nobody really believes ratings are 100% right on the money accurate. But it's silly not to use the most correct method possible. Ratings are a very useful approximation to reality and you might as well get as close to that reality as you can.- Don But then we have to take the amount

RE: [computer-go] How to get more participation in 19x19 CGOS?

2008-01-09 Thread Edward de Grijs
Just for the record, For 19x19 I like a time setting of 5 to 10 minutes (max) per side. My main two reasons: 1) It takes to long to establish a good rating estimate. 2) For the near future I can only run on a single cpu machine at night. During the day my wife is using this computer, and

RE: [computer-go] Test position set for MC programs

2008-04-23 Thread Edward de Grijs
Hi all, thanks Yamato for the positions. FirstGo version 330 results: 1k playouts - 27/50 passes10k playouts - 30/50 passes100k playouts - 33/50 passes (100k takes about 8 seconds/position average on P4 2.67Ghz.) Edward.