kgs recently had a tournament where bots were allowed to play -- it was on nonstandard-sized boards, and zen did fantastically well, taking second place in the 21x21 tournament, in both american/european and asian/european divisions.
there are also a stable of people throwing themselves at zen in the "computer go" room on kgs, solidifying its rank at 5d (as it slowly creeps toward 6d). (to be clear, this is the version playing at roughly (15s?/move), which in my experience is at-speed or slower than most non-tournament play happens in practice without a clock, so totally fair for humans to play at). so even if it can't play in human tournaments, everyone knows that it is at least as strong as the strongest 5d's on KGS. i think that it'd be great if bots could play in the 19x19 tournaments on kgs. that is a far cry from playing as an actual player over the board on a regular basis at regular tournaments. does anyone have an example of *any* game that existed before computers where computers have been accepted/allowed to play as a regular practice (instead of as a highly debated issue?). s. On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > Ingo wrote: »The ranks you mention are from KGS. Is there something like a > KGS World Championship, let it be with or without prize money? Winning such > an online championship might be easier for a bot then winning "over the > board".» > > Is it allowed for gobots to participate to online Kgs tournaments? It would > very nice if they could. I think that there should be 2-4 places open for > gobots, because computer go is such an important aspect of go. > > Chessbots could participate into some offline tournaments until they were > too strong to play with humans. This is the best way to observe the > development of gobots. > > —Jouni > > _______________________________________________ > 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
