On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:38 -0400, Jason House wrote: > I'm not physically attending the EGC. In order to participate, I > needed to provide a windows executable and have someone operate the > bot on my behalf. I probably should have taken advantage of the offer > to use a Linux box, but I figured I'd make it easier on the > organizers :)
I suppose you could attempt to do this with wine, the windows emulator. Have you considered trying? I have been surprised recently with how well it works. Also, I have successfully created a windows executable for my chess program using the cross compiler but it's not D, it's C. - Don > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:30 -0400, Jason House wrote: > > I have to withdraw from this tournament. I don't have a > windows > > computer, and getting access to one with the ability to > install tools > > has been tougher than anticipated. > > > Why do you need a windows computer? It's my understanding > that they > already supply windows Vista computers for you. And can't > you bring > the software tools you need to install with you on a pen drive > or on > cdrom? > > - Don > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 14:53 +0100, Nick Wedd wrote: > > > The European Go Congress (see > http://egc2008.eu/en/congress/index.php) > > > will be held in Leksand, Sweden from July 26th to August > 9th. On > > > Wednesday August 6th it will include a Computer Go event > (see > > > http://www.computer-go.info/egc2008/). > > > > > > Entry to this is free. If you would like to enter but > cannot be there > > > yourself, it should be possible for you to send in your > program, and I > > > will try to find an operator for it. > > > > > > According to my records, entries so far are: > > > > > > 19x19 9x9 > > > CrazyStone possible possible > > > FirstGo yes yes > > > GNU Go probable probable > > > HouseBot no yes > > > Leela probable yes > > > Mango possible possible > > > Many Faces of Go yes no > > > Steenvreter no yes > > > Toaster no possible > > > TSGo probable no > > > Tuuppari yes yes > > > valkyria possible possible > > > Wei2Go probable no > > > > > > I expect this table needs correcting and bringing up to > date. > > > Corrections and updates may be posted to this list or sent > to me > > > privately, as you prefer. Late entries are also welcome. > > > > > > The programs will be run on Windows Vista PCs in Leksand, > connected to > > > KGS, where the games will be played. > > > > > > Of the programs listed above, TSGo (by Ivo Tonkes) and > Tuuppari (by a > > > team of Finnish programmers) have never, so far as I know, > competed in a > > > KGS tournament. I would like both those programs to play > in a trial > > > tournament on KGS, to ensure that they are correctly > configured for > > > tournament play, rather than finding out that they aren't > on the day of > > > the event. I am willing to set up such a trial tournament > whenever > > > requested - it will use very short time limits, and no-one > will care who > > > wins, the purpose will be to test their handling of the > tournament > > > settings. However I suspect that neither of these > programs yet has its > > > Windows version in a presentable state. I hope to hear > soon from Ivo > > > Tonkes and Mika Urtela about this - if I don't, I shall > assume that they > > > aren't reading this list, and email them privately. > > > > > > I owe two pints of beer to "the GNU Go team". I expect to > deliver these > > > to Gunnar, if he is there to operate GNU Go. Gunnar will > also be > > > speaking on computer Go, after the tournament. > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > computer-go@computer-go.org > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
