1 dan to 2 dan on the KGS rating system, with 15 seconds per move. About one rank lower for slower games. This is on two or four core Intel processors.
I think the current state of the art software is far too complex to put directly into an FPGA. There are people trying to put simpler software into FPGA, but so far I think they are much weaker. David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Broccard, Frederic > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 3:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen19! > > a couple of naive questions to be updated on the state of the art of computer > Go in 2010. > What's the level currently achieved by computer Go software(s)/hardware(s) > against human player in 19x19 without any handicap stones ? > On which platform is it running ? > And finally, circa how much improvement can be gained by implementing a given > software version in hardware like FPGA ? > > fred > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Nick Wedd [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen19! > > Congratulations to Zen19, winner of yesterday's KGS bot tournament! > > My report, quite short this month, is at > http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/60/index.html > > Nick > > >The June 2010 KGS computer Go tournament will be on Sunday June 13th, in > >the Asian evening, European morning and American night, starting at > >08:00 UTC/GMT and ending at 13:00 UTC/GMT. > > > >It will be a 10-round Swiss with 19x19 boards, 14 minutes each of main > >time, and a fast "Canadian Overtime", of 25 moves in 30 seconds. It > >will use Chinese rules with 7.5 points komi. There are details at > >http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=512 > > > >Registration is now open. To enter, please read and follow the > >instructions at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/how/index.html . The rules > >are given at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/rules.html . Your bot need not > >be strong to enter, indeed weak and new bots are particularly welcome. > > > >Please send your registration email (with the words "KGS Tournament > >Registration" in the title) to me at maproom at gmail dot com (converted > >to a valid address in the obvious way). > > > > -- > Nick Wedd [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
