Re: [computer-go] Fast Board implementation

2007-01-15 Thread dhillismail
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: computer-go@computer-go.org >Sent: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:08 PM >Subject: Re: [computer-go] Fast Board implementation > >What should the mercy threshold be for other board sizes than 9 by 9, >particularly 19 by 19? >- George Dahl

Re: [computer-go] Re: MC thought

2007-01-15 Thread Don Dailey
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 10:38 -0800, Dave Dyer wrote: > I wonder if MC programs shouldn't prune game branches when > sufficiently large captures occur. The loss/win might not > be strictly allocated to the right player, but it certainly > means that the current game has entered sillyspace. I think

[computer-go] Re: MC thought

2007-01-15 Thread Dave Dyer
At 11:10 AM 1/15/2007, Magnus Persson wrote: >Quoting Dave Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>I wonder if MC programs shouldn't prune game branches when >>sufficiently large captures occur. The loss/win might not >>be strictly allocated to the right player, but it certainly >>means that the current gam

Re: [computer-go] Re: MC thought

2007-01-15 Thread Magnus Persson
Quoting Dave Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I wonder if MC programs shouldn't prune game branches when sufficiently large captures occur. The loss/win might not be strictly allocated to the right player, but it certainly means that the current game has entered sillyspace. Are you talking about pru

[computer-go] Re: MC thought

2007-01-15 Thread Dave Dyer
I wonder if MC programs shouldn't prune game branches when sufficiently large captures occur. The loss/win might not be strictly allocated to the right player, but it certainly means that the current game has entered sillyspace. ___ computer-go mailing

Re: [computer-go] kgsGtp sometimes "aborts" commands

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Drake
William Shubert tells me that the "abort" message is internal to kgsGtp. It really means that a command has been undone, with the usual GTP undo command to the program. It turned out there was a bug in the undo function of Orego, which I've now fixed. Moral: if you have this problem, make s

Re: [computer-go] kgsGtp sometimes "aborts" commands

2007-01-15 Thread Eduardo Sabbatella
I found a couple of times that "aborting genmove". Seriously I don't know what kgsGtp is doing but my engine handles that properly. My code is strictly "functional", you call genmove, I will not write neither read anything until the move is generated and write out to std out. Perhaps Its reseting

Re: [computer-go] Go and IQ training

2007-01-15 Thread Don Dailey
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 10:19 +, Aidan Karley wrote: >For what it's worth, the Aberdeen University Go Club was set > up > in the early 1980s by ... a carpenter. Always a good memory for > deflating one's potential to self-aggrandisment. I've always found it humorous that the non-chess

Re: [computer-go] Go and IQ training

2007-01-15 Thread Aidan Karley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Olsson wrote: > This is a bit off topic, but I am wondering if a person can play Go > to increase their IQ or improve their intelligence. If one is going to discuss the extremely slippy concept of "intelligence" (or it's far, far slippier distant relat