Hello All, It is my belief that the next big advance in computer Go will come from an understanding of scaling relationships. With the recent advances in MC programs, there is plenty of interesting work to be done in how those programs will scale with more time and/or memory.
My question to all of you is the level of your interest in scaling by board size. In order to help this effort, I am considering extending Don's wonderfully helpful cgos by running servers at increasingly larger board sizes. The obvious steps are the odd numbers starting at 11 and increasing up towards 19, but I fear that having too many cgosNxN servers will thin out participation on each of the servers. The thing that makes the present 9x9 server so useful is the number of opponents that are available at any time, and already I sometimes wish that I saw one or two specific opponents available when their programmers do not have them up and running. Is there interest? Do enough of you have sufficient computer resources to play on several size boards at the same time? There is no sense in having multiple versions of cgosNxN unless there is a steady supply of a variety of programs. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
