Thanks for the very kind words David! Don
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:14 PM, David Doshay <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is some praise I am more than happy to send Don's way: > > Prior to CGOS testing was difficult and rife with self-play induced > errors. As soon as CGOS was available any aspiring Go programmer could test > in a framework that gave a much better estimate of improving playing > strength. From my perspective, CGOS was a gift to Go programmers of great > importance. I sincerely thank you for that. > > I am sorry to hear of your health problems and hope that with focus and a > good attitude you have the computer chess success you are looking for. I do > understand because, although I did not know it at the time, my heart > problems signaled the end of my Go programming days. > > Cheers, > David G Doshay > > [email protected] > > > > > > On 30, Sep 2013, at 5:28 AM, Don Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I appreciate the praise! > > Don > > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Janzert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don, >> >> Thank you for all your contributions to the game programming community >> (including Arimaa, Chess and Go in my personal experience). Best of luck >> with Komodo, you've already made great progress with it. >> >> Janzert >> >> >> On 9/29/2013 8:49 AM, Don Dailey wrote: >> >>> I've had some great fun with computer go but I'm stepping out of it now >>> due to health problems and in order to focus on more important things >>> if/while I still have a little time. >>> >>> Joshua Shriver is taking over CGOS duties, and is getting a new cgos >>> server up and running - and I will give him temporary support if/when I >>> can if needed, but he is a pretty capable system administrator so it >>> should go relatively smoothly. >>> >>> If I can I'll check in from time to time. Right now I'm focusing on >>> computer chess and hoping to have the strongest program in the world - >>> Komodo is very close and it's a fight for the top 3. >>> >>> I had dreams of competing also for the strongest go engine but there are >>> only so many hours in a day and so much energy to go around - and I am >>> much more handicapped (no pun intended) in GO as my knowledge of the >>> game is beginner level but in chess I'm a relatively competent >>> tournament player - or at least I used to be. So chess was a better >>> fit for me. >>> >>> I'll update the archives. We may want to store the games elsewhere as >>> I don't know if Dave is willing to store this data on his server - it's >>> a lot of data. >>> >>> Don >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/computer-go<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 >
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