David thanks for the report. Mark On Thu Sep 20 14:06:53 PDT 2007 David Doshay wrote:
> SlugGo entered the first year as a 9 kyu and won 1 game. One other game > was clearly "won" on the board (more than 100 points) but the opponent > was clever enough to start playing very complicated moves that I > could see > were not going to work, but took SlugGo a long time to reply to, and > SlugGo lost on time. After that we put in time management code. > > The second year I made a silly mistake, and the graphical front end > (GoBan) > was mistakenly set to "announce atari." The announcement was something > that the multi-processor message passing code did not understand, so > SlugGo lost all games by crashing in response to the first atari of > the game. > I figured this out minutes after the last game. SlugGo had been > entered as > a 10 kyu the second year. I felt horrible accepting the cash prize > for best > program, but it did help offset the $1250 cost of a handicap van that > I had > to rent to transport the cluster to Los Angeles. > > The Cotsen open is 5 games. I think the bracket ran from 8 to 12 kyu. I > did not do anything to narrow my guess of the rating. > > I will look for the games. > > Cheers, > David _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
