Re: [computer-go] any mac programmers out there?

2009-09-05 Thread Mark Boon
On Sep 5, 2009, at 4:41 AM, terry mcintyre wrote: Found an interesting article on Snow Leopard at Ars Technica ... 20- some pages. http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars Of interest to Computer Go programmers: the addition of blocks to C, which allow closures and ot

[computer-go] Other uses of dynamic komi

2009-09-05 Thread Willemien
i was puzzeling is dynamic komi not also usefull for - early pass, (only play if a move is better than a pass) - preventing horizon effect. (pushing losses over the search horizon) (not so sure about this but MTSC/ utc doesn't seem to prevent it on its own, what i find s bit puzelling on its s

RE: [computer-go] IGS?

2009-09-05 Thread David Fotland
I wrote an IGS client. It's integrated into Many Faces. Since Many Faces can be a GTP server to your engine, you should be able to use Many Faces to play your engine against people on IGS. Or you can write your own IGS client. The IGS interface is not documented, but it's ASCII, so it's pretty

Re: [computer-go] IGS?

2009-09-05 Thread Ray Tayek
At 12:29 PM 9/5/2009, you wrote: ... this tuesday i'm going to bring a visit to the local Go-club to get them to teach me how to really play Go, beyond placing stones on the board following the most basic rules. please allow me to suggest that you start playing on small boards. there is a nice

Re: [computer-go] IGS?

2009-09-05 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> I watched a game of your bot, and it still fills its own eyes, killing Which version did you check? Stop-test2 is the most recent one. It has checks for preventing placing stones in an eye. > alive groups. I suggest you strictly forbid eye-filling moves until the > bot is much stronger (I th

Re: [computer-go] IGS?

2009-09-05 Thread Isaac Deutsch
I watched a game of your bot, and it still fills its own eyes, killing alive groups. I suggest you strictly forbid eye-filling moves until the bot is much stronger (I think it is needed in very few cases to kill groups). Also it plays many, many bad self-atari moves into the tiger mouth sha

Re: [computer-go] any mac programmers out there?

2009-09-05 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Jason House On Sep 5, 2009, at 10:41 AM, terry mcintyre wrote: Found an interesting article on Snow Leopard at Ars Technica ... 20-some pages. > >http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars > >Of interest to Computer Go programmers:

Re: [computer-go] any mac programmers out there?

2009-09-05 Thread Isaac Deutsch
The article is a very good read! GDC, blocks and OpenCL sound exciting. When I tried LLVM, I got a performance drop, too (but still not using Snow Leopard, and the new versions might be better). -ibd ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer

[computer-go] IGS?

2009-09-05 Thread Folkert van Heusden
Hi, Does anyone know how to interface your go program to IGS? It is already on KGS and CGOS but would like to have it play on IGS as well. Folkert van Heusden -- MultiTail ist eine flexible Applikation um Logfiles und Kommando Eingaben zu überprüfen. Inkl. Filter, Farben, Zusammenführen, Ansic

Re: [computer-go] any mac programmers out there?

2009-09-05 Thread Jason House
On Sep 5, 2009, at 10:41 AM, terry mcintyre wrote: Found an interesting article on Snow Leopard at Ars Technica ... 20- some pages. http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars Of interest to Computer Go programmers: the addition of blocks to C, which allow closures and

Re: [computer-go] any mac programmers out there?

2009-09-05 Thread Isaac Deutsch
Yes, I'm one. Haven't upgraded to SL yet, though. ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/

[computer-go] any mac programmers out there?

2009-09-05 Thread terry mcintyre
Found an interesting article on Snow Leopard at Ars Technica ... 20-some pages. http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars Of interest to Computer Go programmers: the addition of blocks to C, which allow closures and other fun stuff, much like Lisp. LLVM, which allows JIT co