Re: [computer-go] building a combinatorial game theory bot

2009-06-30 Thread Thomas Nelson
Thanks very much, I'm reading through the thesis now. It's great to have some research to refer to and build off of, although it's daunting to know it didn't work out that well for you. I hope I'm not going into a dead end! Is there by any chance some source code available, just to read through

[computer-go] building a combinatorial game theory bot

2009-06-16 Thread Thomas Nelson
Hi, I've decided to build a go program based on combinatorial game theory, And I'm looking for any pointers or advice that might save me trouble later. I looked a little in the archives, and while there are references to CGT in a few places, I haven't seen any attempts to build a full engine aroun

Re: [computer-go] Please have your bot resign, for your own good

2008-01-02 Thread Thomas Nelson
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Don Dailey wrote: If we don't like the rules, we can talk about changing them in order to get behavior that fits our sensibilities better.But we have been over this ground many times before. It seems like the only reasonable way to properly score games is to play them

Re: [computer-go] [OT] All-integer scalable distribution algorithm.

2007-11-06 Thread Thomas Nelson
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Mike Hill wrote: int choose( int range, int degree-of-randomness) Returns an integer in [0-range] distributed depending on the value of degree-of-randomness. At degree-of-randomness 100, I want the distribution to be uniform. At degree-of-randomness 0, I want the distr

Re: [computer-go] GoGui and python

2007-08-27 Thread Thomas Nelson
Thanks to all who replied. This fixed my problem. THN On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Adrian Petrescu wrote: Yeah, flushing stdout should be all you need to do to make this work. To do this, import sys sys.stdout.flush() Good luck :) ___ computer-go maili

[computer-go] GoGui and python

2007-08-24 Thread Thomas Nelson
Has anyone here tried using GoGui with python? I thought the print statement would send commands well enough, but it doesn't seem to. Here's some very simple code: command = raw_input() print "= myName\n" Obviously, this is a toy example, but GoGui responds with "the program never responde