> I watched a game of your bot, and it still fills its own eyes, killing
Which version did you check? Stop-test2 is the most recent one. It has checks for preventing placing stones in an eye. > alive groups. I suggest you strictly forbid eye-filling moves until the > bot is much stronger (I think it is needed in very few cases to kill > groups). Also it plays many, many bad self-atari moves into the tiger > mouth shape. If you evaluate positions and give them a score, these moves > should receive a worse score. ok, thanks for evaluating this tuesday i'm going to bring a visit to the local Go-club to get them to teach me how to really play Go, beyond placing stones on the board following the most basic rules. > Do you have an account on KGS? (Human, not bot :) > That said, I think you have enough testing opportunities on KGS and > CGOS. It's probably not worth the hassle if IGS doesn't support normal > GTP for bots. :p ok Folkert van Heusden -- www.biglumber.com <- site where one can exchange PGP key signatures ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/