> > Dear Go programmers, if you want to register from a free go tournament: > > http://www.egc2011.eu/index.php/en/computer-go > > Will there also be a match of the Finnish go friend with his > 1000-Euro-X-prize? >
No cash prize (at least for the things I co-organize). (sorry for the typo, "for a free" and not "from a free"...and maybe multiple other typos...) > > > ==> we will also have demos on blind-go, one-color-go, random-go. > > What is meant by random-go? > For us, random-go = random initial position. We generate random positions, check that they are fair by multiple self-play game, and, if we play against a human, we give to the human the choice of the color so that if he can find an obvious bias he can switch colors. Computers are much stronger in random-go than in normal-go - a draft of our paper accepted at CIG around that is available at http://www.lri.fr/~teytaud/randomgo.pdf. The advantage of random-go (both for humans or for computers :-) ) is that you don't have to learn Josekis because there's no joseki :-) Computer can compete at the 6D level in random-go. Similar works exist in chess, and I guess you can do it in many games if you want to get rid of the effect of openings. Best regards, Olivier
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