Re: [computer-go] 2008 World 9x9 Computer Go Championship in Taiwan

2008-07-02 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
From 1997 and onwards i managed to join in the computer chess world champs every year. Besides the participants Stefan MK (Shredder), Shay Bushinsky and Amir Ban (both junior) and tournament director Jaap van den Herik and Joke Hellemons who is doing the entire organisation from ICGA side;

Re: [computer-go] 2008 World 9x9 Computer Go Championship in Taiwan

2008-07-02 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ian Osgood wrote: By contrast, the ICGA Go events never get top candidate program participation, and before this year have had smaller turnouts than the chess event. Since the expiration of the Ing Prize, the last event of any kind which had such participation was the 2003 Gifu Challenge (KCC

Re: [computer-go] 2008 World 9x9 Computer Go Championship in Taiwan

2008-07-02 Thread Ian Osgood
On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Zach Wegner wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Erik van der Werf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's a pretty good deal!!! http://64.68.157.89/forum/viewtopic.php? topic_view=threads&p=193819&t=21591 Why isn't there any sponsoring like this for the other tou

Re: [computer-go] Representation of state-action pairs

2008-07-02 Thread Jason House
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 2, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Jason Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been looking at RAVE (Rapid Action Value Estimate), which MoGo uses. The score of states during simulation is stored in state-action pairs, which are all updated with the playouts, rather than

Re: [computer-go] 2008 World 9x9 Computer Go Championship in Taiwan

2008-07-02 Thread Zach Wegner
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Erik van der Werf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's a pretty good deal!!! > > http://64.68.157.89/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=193819&t=21591 > > Why isn't there any sponsoring like this for the other tournaments? > > Erik They pretty much have to. T

Re: [computer-go] Representation of state-action pairs

2008-07-02 Thread Sylvain Gelly
MoGo has a notion of "internal" node in the tree (as most of the UCT programs I think) and the state-action pairs are only kept for those. Sylvain 2008/7/2 Jason Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been looking at RAVE (Rapid Action Value Estimate), which MoGo uses. The > score of states durin

[computer-go] Representation of state-action pairs

2008-07-02 Thread Jason Galbraith
I've been looking at RAVE (Rapid Action Value Estimate), which MoGo uses. The score of states during simulation is stored in state-action pairs, which are all updated with the playouts, rather than just those states visited in the tree. How would you store these scores? The number of potential s

Re: [computer-go] 2008 World 9x9 Computer Go Championship in Taiwan

2008-07-02 Thread Hideki Kato
I strongly believe Gifu Challenge will not come back any more. #Please attend The 2nd UEC Cup, planned on December 13-14, 2008, instead. -Hideki David Fotland: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Is there any word on the Gifu tournament in Japan, which is usually in >September? > >David > >> -Original Mes