Re: [spam probable] [computer-go] Anchor Player

2006-12-13 Thread Don Dailey
I think probably I just go with ELO, much simpler. I think later we will want to have handicaps.Even at 9x9 Mogo is all by itself although I expect other programs to eventually catch up or get close later. For the Anchor, I think I will take David suggestion and start with AnchorMan. The

Re: [spam probable] [computer-go] Anchor Player

2006-12-13 Thread alain Baeckeroot
Le mercredi 13 décembre 2006 05:53, Don Dailey a écrit : > Does a 1 kyu difference mean I can give you 1 stone if I am better and > expect to come out about even? yes, 1 handi is 0.5 komi. > > Does this all work out in a transitive way? If a 6 kyu can give a 7 > kyu 1 stone, and the 7 kyu can gi

RE: [spam probable] [computer-go] Anchor Player

2006-12-12 Thread David Fotland
t; Cc: computer-go > Subject: Re: [spam probable] [computer-go] Anchor Player > > > Hi Sylvain, > > I'm not worried about the ELO situation but you are right. > When skill is measured by ELO you are talking about the > probability of winning a game against any given

Re: [spam probable] [computer-go] Anchor Player

2006-12-12 Thread Don Dailey
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 04:48 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > GnuGo is another possibility and has the advantage of being a well > > known quantity, but Gnugo fails to meet some of the criteria above > > such as being too deterministic and using heavy resources. But GnuGo uses a lot of memory, o

Re: [spam probable] [computer-go] Anchor Player

2006-12-12 Thread Don Dailey
Hi Sylvain, I'm not worried about the ELO situation but you are right. When skill is measured by ELO you are talking about the probability of winning a game against any given opponent, we just have to be careful how we interpret or compare to other board sizes. If 2 opponents are 50 ELO rating p

Re: [spam probable] [computer-go] Anchor Player

2006-12-12 Thread sylvain . gelly
> GnuGo is another possibility and has the advantage of being a well > known quantity, but Gnugo fails to meet some of the criteria above > such as being too deterministic and using heavy resources. Hello, GnuGo at level 0 met almost all requirement I think. Perhaps too deterministic, but I even