The Shodan Go bet page has been up six months now:
http://dcook.org/gobet/
In the voting, 128 people have now responded. For a while the three
choices (Computer Wins vs. Too Close To Call vs. John Wins) were getting
equal numbers of votes. But recently John has pulled ahead, with 42%
thinking
There is a Japanese version of the go bet page here:
http://dcook.org/gobet/index.ja.html
I'm very grateful to Yasuhiro Ike-san for the translation.
I thought I had a Chinese translation arranged, but that seems to have
fallen through. I'm especially interested in Chinese and Korean
translation
"Any hardware which can be brought to the playing site" would presumably
include today's baby supers, which include a few dozen cores in a desktop box.
Would it include whatever fits into Sun's datacenter-in-a-shipping-container?
I am less optimistic about the computer's prospects now than I w
It's too early for computers to win bets like this - but it will eventually
happen. We just need to wait a few more years which will come and go
before you realize it.
- Don
2009/11/22 terry mcintyre
> "Any hardware which can be brought to the playing site" would presumably
> include today's
Hi,
After reading "Grid Coevolution for Adaptive Simulations: Application to the
Building of Opening Books in the Game of Go". and "Towards Opening Book
Learning" I started to think...
Would the creation of a 9x9 OB with the MCTS-method not be an ideal project
for distributed computing.
I was thi
A Go tounrmaent with Hahn system has been retransmeted on kgs/eurogo TV
With these rules, the actual count makes a difference (as opposed to just
win/lose)
Winning by >40.5gets 100 points
......
Losing by >40.5gets 0 point
I'm pretty sure that this simplification of the rules would favor computers.
Of course that would require some program modifications, primarily
counting points on the board instead of wins and losses.
These rules basically takes out some (or at least reduces) elements of the
game that humans are
Don Dailey wrote:
> this simplification of the rules
Simplification? It does not even simplify strategy.
--
robert jasiek
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