Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland!

2008-10-01 Thread terry mcintyre
I'm curious -- was this an 8 x quad-core box? Should be able to fit all those puppies into a single box nowadays. Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We must stop dressing up the slaughter of foreigners as a great national cause. -- Sheldon Richman - Original Message > From: David

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

2008-10-01 Thread Olivier Teytaud
Dear all, the results of the 9x9 computer-go event in Taiwan (including a 9x9 competition and games between humans and computers) can be seen at http://go.nutn.edu.tw/eng/main_eng.htm (see "news") These games were organized by the National University of Tainan and the Chang Jung Christian Universi

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland!

2008-10-01 Thread David Doshay
Hi David, Did you take those machines to China? Cheers, David On 1, Oct 2008, at 6:14 AM, David Fotland wrote: I was doing about 40 million playouts per move on 32 Xeon processors and he had eight cores. ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland!

2008-10-01 Thread Darren Cook
> Congratulations! Yes, well done David. I see Many Faces won even without getting the loss to Mogo reversed. > I was surprised to hear that there were now only thirteen entrants. Why > did Prof. Chen withdraw Go Intellect? I think he was having computer trouble and the loan computer would hav

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland!

2008-10-01 Thread Ian Osgood
Congratulations! Both for the gold, and for defeating Mogo. I never thought I'd see the day that the Go tournaments would bring heavier hardware than the chess championship! I was surprised to hear that there were now only thirteen entrants. Why did Prof. Chen withdraw Go Intellect? Have

Re: [computer-go] Correct Komi for 6x6 is 2.0

2008-10-01 Thread Magnus Persson
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: See comments below... ... bE3 wE4 bE1 wF3!!!... Normally wF2 is played in the corner. But with wF3 white has the option to play aggresively with wF1 which usually is a bad idea because the ko fight risk to much. But on a small board things are not normal... Can I

RE: [computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland!

2008-10-01 Thread David Fotland
Thanks. Mogo had already finished when Many Faces and Streenvreeter played our last game. I had to win it to win the tournament, and it was a very exciting game with a huge semeai. It was complex enough I have no idea which program made the final mistake. For quite some time I thought Many Face

Re: [computer-go] Correct Komi for 6x6 is 2.0

2008-10-01 Thread Don Dailey
Yes, and that harmonizes with my line too. - Don On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:31 +0200, Magnus Persson wrote: > Great! Mystery solved. > > Magnus > > Quoting Ingo Althöfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello Magnus, > > > > there was indeed a notation error in your original posting. > > There you gi

Re: [computer-go] Correct Komi for 6x6 is 2.0

2008-10-01 Thread Michael Williams
Does anyone have any komi data for 4x5 or 5x6? I'm trying to reproduce these numbers using my own engine and 6x6 is still a bit large. ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

Re: [computer-go] Correct Komi for 6x6 is 2.0

2008-10-01 Thread ndkrempel
See comments below... > ... bE3 wE4 bE1 wF3!!!... > > Normally wF2 is played in the corner. But with wF3 white has the > option to play aggresively with wF1 which usually is a bad idea > because the ko fight risk to much. But on a small board things are not > normal... Can I ask which ruleset thi

[computer-go] Computer-Go on small boards

2008-10-01 Thread Ingo Althöfer
Gian-Carlo Pascutto replied: > Don Dailey wrote: >> 4. I believe Leela, at a higher level and with a "correction" book >> would play perfect or very close to perfect on 6x6. This may >> depend on seki issues however, it may not be possible for Leela >> (or other Go programs) to pla

Re: [computer-go] Correct Komi for 6x6 is 2.0

2008-10-01 Thread Magnus Persson
Great! Mystery solved. Magnus Quoting Ingo Althöfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello Magnus, there was indeed a notation error in your original posting. There you give 13.C1 (see last line below) and not 13.C2 as in the sgf. Ingo. I have been trying to see what Valkyria does. But it is a little

[computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland!

2008-10-01 Thread Ingo Althöfer
His program Many Faces of Go has become winner in the 9x9-Go competition in the "13th International Computer Games Championship", held in Beijing. Rank 2 for MoGo after tiebreak against Leela. http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/tournament.php?id=180 with table and sgf of many games. Today the

[computer-go] Correct Komi for 6x6 is 2.0

2008-10-01 Thread Ingo Althöfer
Hello Magnus, there was indeed a notation error in your original posting. There you give 13.C1 (see last line below) and not 13.C2 as in the sgf. Ingo. > I have been trying to see what Valkyria does. But it is a little > unstable when it reads deep at 6x6. It should not be a problem for > V

Re: [computer-go] Correct Komi for 6x6 is 2.0

2008-10-01 Thread Magnus Persson
I fear we are not talking about the same game. In case I made a mistake in my email you get the sgf here: (;FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[GoGui:1.1]SZ[6] KM[2.5]DT[2008-09-30]RE[B+Resign] ;B[cc];W[dd];B[cd];W[dc];B[db];W[eb];B[de];W[ee];B[ed];W[ec] ;B[ef];W[fd];B[ce];W[cb];B[bb];W[da];B[ba];W[ff];B[fe];W[ca