It was Doug Larson's idea. Something like: Pull a single stone out of Atari once Play in a liberty of the group with fewest liberties that has 5 or fewer liberties Play random
> I also am thinking about building a really fast and weak playing bot. > Something that is similar to the rule based program someone suggested > to > you, but with a few simple 3x3 patterns to supplement it. Do you > remember what we called that program? It played by simple rules > such > as attacking the group with the least liberties, etc. We names it > somewhat after the person who suggested the idea. > > > - Don > > > > > > David Fotland wrote: > > I think there are two reasons there are not more programs on 19x19 > CGOS: > > > > 1) The anchor, Gnugo, is quite strong, Many Faces 12 is stronger, and > > CrazyStone is much stronger. Since the programs playing are so > strong, it > > is demoralizing for a new program to lose so often. Without weaker > > competition, it is hard to get accurate ratings for new, weaker > programs. > > > > 2) The rounds take almost an hour, so it takes much too long to get > enough > > games to see how your program is doing. In my local testing, I use > 10 or 15 > > minutes per side. I like to see 50 to 100 test games get any > confidence > > that a new version is stronger. I prefer to get a test run complete > in > > under a day. > > > > I propose the following changes: > > > > I'll put up 3 weaker versions of Many Faces 12, so there is > competition at > > lower ratings. These versions are quite fast, using only a few > seconds for > > a full game. This will provide some stable opponents for the weaker > > programs. > > > > I think the time limits for CGOS19x19 should be reduced to 10 or 15 > minutes > > per side. This is enough to test programs, and it's still a > reasonable time > > limit for games against people. Since programs that search scale > with > > additional time, the relative ratings of these programs should be > similar at > > 10 minutes per game and 30 minutes per game. > > > > -David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > computer-go@computer-go.org > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
