Hi Rémi, > Thanks Ingo. I enjoyed this match very much.
The same did I. It was so nice that both you and FJ were so easy-going during the arrangements. By the way, it was a lucky coincidence that the event became real in 2014. In German computer go forum there was a discussion on the Yoda exhibition games from March 2014, where CrazyStone hadhad a nice H4-win. FJ also participated, and out of the blue he wrote "I would be willing to play some match against CS when someone is willing to sponsor that". For a moment we discussed crowd funding via the forum, but than I had an idea which turned out to be better. Raymond-Georg Snatzke was my assistant at Jena University. He got a doctor degree for a thesis on Combinatorial Game Theory applied to the game of Amazons. For several years he is now with codecentric. I told Georg about FJ's idea to have a match with sponsor. Georg asked his boss, and to his surprise the answer was directly positive. For me the match is one (little) step on the long march: to have a bot beating a top human player without handicap by 2027 (the year of my retirement from University job). Cheers, Ingo. PS: It is not an accident that I always write "codecentric" in small letters, but Challenge with a capital "C". The official name of the company is with small "c". _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
