> 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 not sure. It is already relatively strong and plays very quickly. By the way, I have concern about the 19x19 no one mentionned I think. In 19x19 the probability of winning between two players will be very often close to 0 or 1. As the game is longer, if a player is better then his probability of winning is very big because he can repair his mistakes. Then the ELO could not be sufficent. Am I wrong? Perhaps you can use kyu rating, setting handicaps (and one advantage is that then the pairing system is simpler). Sylvain _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
