Ingo Althöfer: <[email protected]>:
>Hi Hideki,
>
>thanks for your fine translation and all the information.
>I will give some comments in between.
>
>> The winning rate of this new version against previous version ("Saikyo
>> no Igo 2011") is 78%, stronger about 1 stone.
>
>That sound impressive.
Agree. The 2010 version of Zen (Tencho no Igo 2) had a similar copy
(80%, instead of 78% :-), though.
>> "Crazy Stone" is a Go playing program, developed by a computer
>> scientist Rémi Coulom at Lille University in France. A pioneer of
>> Monte-Carlo Go and one of the top-runners.
>
>Just in these days I am finalizing a paper on "history of game tree
>search". It starts with Zermelo (and his seminal paper in 1912).
>Remi is mentioned in the paper too - for his first MCTS paper (published
>in 2007) and for his Gold medal in the 2006 Olympiad.
>
>> This product uses the newest version and, in addition, has "analysis
>> window" feature, which is very useful for anaylizing and research of
>> games.
>
>We need it in Western version, too.
Personal information: "Tencho no Igo 3" ("Tencho 3" for short) is
working fine in all English text on US version Windows 7, on my ThinkPad
X220s.
#Not officially guaranteed, though.
>> Restarting feature: When you have a doubt on a computer's move, you
>> can change the move and resume playing.
>
>Very nice option. That makes it especially interesting for stronger players
>for interactive analysis.
"Tencho 3" has the same functionality.
>> - Perfect basic functinality.
>> Possbile settings are: Three boardsizes, 9, 13 and 19. Handicap stones
>> from 0 to 9. Komi from -7.5 to 7.5.
>
>I would have prefered more flexible board sizes (ManyFaces allows all from
>5x5 to 19x19; Leela allows all until 38x38(.
Agree. "Tencho 3" allows the same bordsizes as "Saikyo no Igo 2012",
though Zen allows all boardsizes between 2 and 19. I want 11x11,
15x15 and 17x17 (and 21x21 if possible. Larger boardsizes than 19x19
may make the program slower and thus weaker, though).
>But more important would be to have more flexibility with komi and handicap
>stones: ManyFaces allows any values from -99 to +999 for komi, and any
>number of handicap stones.
>Extreme values are helpful when you want to play a game of "kill-all go":
>One side gets many handicap stones. The other side is winner when she gets
>one living group on the board.
I saw "kill-all go" played in TAAI last year. "Tencho 3" allows only
0.5 to 9.5 with step 1 and 0, no negative nor integral values.
#Japanese publishers seem very restrictive and conservative :(.
>*****************
>One question to the Zen team:
>Will there be (hopefully still in 2012) a commercial version for the western
>people?
I have no infomation at all. Yamato told me a few years ago that the
publisher was seeking good oversea resellers. #Still nothing
happened :(.
>Thanks again for you detailled description and translation.
You're welcome,
Hideki
>Ingo.
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