Well... Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you show up to a vespa rally with a hog, you'll win all long-distance races.
Regardless, there can be a lot of merit in the design decisions made in a vespa. (Even ones that might work on a Harley. :) steve On Jul 14, 2015 12:45 AM, Ingo Althöfer <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello Josef, hello all, > > "Josef Moudrik" <j.moud...@gmail.com> > > ... As far as I know, combinatorial game theory is not used > > in modern Go engines, despite its nice theoretical properties. > > Let me tell you an anecdote from CGT history: In Februar 2002, there > was a week-long conference on "Algorithmic Combinatorial Game Theory" > in "Schloss Dagstuhl" (Germany). It was years before the Monte Carlo > revolution, and in those days many hopes for strong go bots were > on CGT. > > In the beginning of the week, the simple board game Clobber > (perfectly suited for use of CGT) was introduced - and a human > Clobber tournament was planned for the evenings. > I proposed to write a Clobber bot (without using CGT), and > two other participants followed me. Within hours, our bots > were ready. And they crushed the humans (on 6x5 board size) > terribly. So, "we" were excluded from the evening tournament > (and had to play our own bot competition). The only comment on > my bot by senior Elwyn Berlekamp (one of the fathers of modern > CGT; co-author of "Winning ways") was: Why does it have such an > ugly graphical interface? It seemed, Prof. Berlekamp was dis- > appointed by the fact that Clobber bots were so strong without > using any CGT. > > Photo with (almost) the whole group of 2002-participants: > https://www.dagstuhl.de/Gruppenbilder/02081.A.B.JPG > In the very first row (sitting): third person from left > is John Tromp (the man from the Tromp-Taylor rules, from > the Tromp-Cook bet, from go position counting and and and). > In the same row the man with the diagonal go board is > Martin Mueller. Directly behind Martin stands Richard Nowakowski > (with red shirt), co-inventor of Clobber (in Summ,er 2001, together > with M.H. Albert and J.P. Grossman). > > https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=02081 > > Looking forward to meet you in Liberec! > Ingo. > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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