(a) Much software downloadable from the internet is legal (think gGo,
GnuGo, linux, etc), therefore downloading it from the internet is not
necessarily piracy.
(b) Most of the sums of money I've seen for competitions are trivial
(except the Ing Prize). This might easily change if/when computer go
Commercial market for Go software is in Japan in Korea. Western player
do not make significant numbers and Chinese probably find bettre uses
for money - although there more reach Chinese people than people in
Finland.
Petri
2008/11/21 Michael Gherrity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I have read th
I think that most people trying go-programming will try at least to experiment
once with UCT.
The first logical step, is to build an amaf-bot. The other logical step, is to
build a UCT bot. That's exactly the path i followed. And i bet many others have
done that too. So it may be guessed that
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 01:34 +, Claus Reinke wrote:
> As a relative beginner in these matters, the more I look at AMAF,
> the less I like it, and I think that has to do with AMAF ignoring
> relative sequencing. By looking at all moves as if they were played
> first, it ignores that some moves on
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 23:53 -0800, Michael Gherrity wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have read that the amount of money that a winning computer go
> program would make in a go tournament is insignificant compared to the
> amount of money that such a program would earn selling to the general
> public. I ha
On 21-nov-08, at 09:34, Denis fidaali wrote:
I think that most people trying go-programming will try at least
to experiment once with UCT.
The first logical step, is to build an amaf-bot. The other logical
step, is to build a UCT bot. That's exactly the path i followed.
And i bet many othe
> From: Michael Gherrity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I have read that the amount of money that a winning computer go program would
> make in a go tournament is insignificant compared to the amount of money that
> such a program would earn selling to the general public.
That is obviously true. Prize
Americans have, generally speaking, more respect for the rights of others - and
guns play a part in that, since many of us choose to defend our rights
directly. As Heinlein wrote: "An armed society is a polite society."
Google "pink pistols" and "terry mcintyre" if you wish.
I say "in general
I've sold 3 copies of Many Faces of Go in China, but when I travel to China
I check in computer stores, they always have it available for a low price.
I have a collection of Chinese versions of Many Faces, one with a 30 page
Chinese language manual explaining all the features in Chinese. I would s
My sales in Japan through AI IGO are 10x or more the sales of Many Faces
English. English sales are about evenly split between USA and Europe. I
have more sales to Finland than to China.
David
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 07:53 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote:
> Americans have, generally speaking, more respect for the rights of
> others - and guns play a part in that, since many of us choose to
> defend our rights directly. As Heinlein wrote: "An armed society is a
> polite society."
I don't want
The following was posted on Sensei's Library:
"Prof. Chen passed away at Oct 12, 2008, at the age of 77."
Can anyone confirm or deny?
Ian
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I have done a bit more testing and some things start to become a
little more clear to me. But I still have some open questions.
What I did was to rewrite my search such that I can set a constant
that determines after how many simulations the tree gets expanded.
And I have a switch to turn A
I read it on Chinese news and forums as well.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Ian Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following was posted on Sensei's Library:
>
> "Prof. Chen passed away at Oct 12, 2008, at the age of 77."
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny?
>
> Ian
>
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Dear Don,
sorry to step in here, but I can't believe what you
write. So I would like to know some facts.
> My first chess program only sold a few copies in Europe.
What was the name of your program?
In which year was it published?
For what platform had it been?
> But I came to find out that t
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