[computer-go] November KGS bot tournament: 19x19 boards, fast

2009-11-02 Thread Nick Wedd
The November 2009 KGS computer Go tournament will be this Sunday, November 8th, in the Asian night, European evening, and American morning, starting at 16:00 UTC/GMT and ending at 21:00 UTC/GMT. There will only be one division. It will be a 10-round Swiss with 19x19 boards, 14 minutes each of

Re: [computer-go] Neural networks

2009-11-02 Thread Daniel Burgos
Well, at its esence a computer is an universal Turing Machine. If you organize the program as a neural network or as a MC algorithm is just cosmetics. You can see the circuits of your computer as neurons simulating a Von Neumann architecture that is simulating a neural network or a MC or whatever.

Re: [computer-go] New list member

2009-11-02 Thread Petr Baudis
Welcome on the list, Trevoke. :-) On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 08:20:15PM -0500, Aldric Giacomoni wrote: > terry mcintyre wrote: > > > > In general, the time taken to run 1000-game tests hinders research. > > That's one avenue to explore better solutions, perhaps. > > > > Warm Regards, > > Terry McIn