On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 10:16:25AM +0900, Hideki Kato wrote:
> Petr Baudis: <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > it seems that Zen19X grabbed at KGS 7d and looks like it's gonna hold!
> >
> >
> > http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=zen19x&year=2016&month=1&oldAcounts=y
> >
> >It's fairly fast, but not terribly so, and while it's unfortunate most of
> >the games are handicaps against low dans, there probably isn't any other
> >way on KGS these days.
> >
> > Congratulations to the Zen team! Weren't AlphaGo announced pretty
> >much at the same moment Zen19X started playing, this would be a really
> >huge news, bumping the state-of-art by two KGS ranks; this was quite
> >an unlucky timing for Zen... Still, a treat for KGS denizens. :-)
>
> Thanks Pasky, but the timing could be the worst :). It took
> almost 4 years from 6d to 7d. One good thing is that Zen19X is
> running on not a clsuter but just a dual-Xeon (2 x 12 core)
> server. The kiblitz asked me about AlphaGo but that's all.
> Their support for Zen is unchanged at all because, I guess, they
> can't play with AlphaGo but Zen and either is strong enough for
> them. There were more than 120 watchers on a game with an 8d.
Yesterday, this Zen version has beaten Pavol Lisy 1p in a no komi game!
It was a blitz game, but imho this was unthinkable until very recently
anyway:
http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=198362#p198362
http://files.gokgs.com/games/2016/1/31/cheater-Zen19X.sgf
These are great times for Computer Go. :)
--
Petr Baudis
If you have good ideas, good data and fast computers,
you can do almost anything. -- Geoffrey Hinton
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