On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
Ian Osgood wrote:
By contrast, the ICGA Go events never get top candidate program
participation, and before this year have had smaller turnouts than
the chess event. Since the expiration of the Ing Prize, the last
event of any kind which had such participation was the 2003 Gifu
Challenge (KCC Igo, Haruka, Go++, Goemate, Many Faces, GNU Go, Go
Intellect, Aya, Katsunari). The size of this year's event is
encouraging, but where are Go++, Haruka, HandTalk, and GNU Go? And
what ever happened to Wulu and GoAhead?
This depends on what you consider "top candidate program". I see no
reason why your list "Go++, Haruka, HandTalk, and GNU Go" should be
accurate, and I strongly suspect anyone who has a change of winning
the world, err, olympiad title is already registered.
--
GCP
At one time, each of these programs has won computer Go events and
been considered a top contender, and then (except for GNU Go) bowed
out of close public competition. It would be an interesting benchmark
to show the progress of modern MC programs if these past-champions
competed. It would at least give us an answer to the question "Are
the new MC programs stronger than [Go++, Haruka, HandTalk]?" It would
be especially interesting if GNU Go competed, since it has been a
long-term representative of the classical pattern-matching Go engine,
as well as now having an MC variant suitable for 9x9 play.
I do agree that the 2008 ICGA competition is shaping up to be the
strongest computer Go championship the world has seen since the end
of the Ing Prize.
Ian
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