By the way even winning just one game is a great success (no handicap!). And other games were (as far as I've been told by strong players) far from trivial for the human player.
2014-10-26 18:30 GMT+08:00 Nick Wedd <[email protected]>: > Yesterday F J Dickhut won his game in the "codecentric go challenge > 2014" five-game match against Crazy Stone, bringing the score to 3-1, > and winning the match. My congratulations to Franz Dickhut! I hope > such an event will be held again next year. > > I have just read a posting by 'leichtloeslich' at > http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t= > 10890&p=175108#p175108 > which reads > > > Crazystone had several disconnections during the game. > > > > After the first disconnect (and subsequent reconnect), appearently > > a second instance of Crazystone was running in the background (I > > think all the way till the second disconnect, you can read about this > > in the KGS kibitz from the end of the game), so that for about 1/3 of > > the game Crazystone was running on merely half the processing > > power/memory it should have been able to use. > > I have come across a similar problem before. In the 2010 European Go > Congress, I was sent a copy of Leela to operate. It had a few > disconnects (after which I simply restarted it), but did badly, losing > all its games. At the end of the event, when I shut down the machine it > had been using, I found multiple copies of Leela running, which > would all have been competing for resources. > > I wonder how practicable it would be for a bot, on startup, to search > for other copies of itself running, and issue a warning if it finds any. > > Nick > -- > Nick Wedd > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > -- ========================================================= Olivier Teytaud, [email protected], TAO, LRI, UMR 8623(CNRS - Univ. Paris-Sud), bat 490 Univ. Paris-Sud F-91405 Orsay Cedex France http://www.slideshare.net/teytaud
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