Sorry, I neglected to specify: Chessandgo = Jean Daligault. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Justin Blank <justin.bl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure where you got that idea. Chessandgo won several Championships. > He's probably the second or third best human player, after Matthew Brown, > and possibly Hirohumi Takahashi, who disappeared after the 2012 > championship. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa#World_Championship > 2. http://arimaa.com/arimaa/rating/whr/ > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:38 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de> > wrote: > >> Hi Darren, >> >> wow, thanks for the interesting news. >> >> On >> http://arimaa.com/arimaa/challenge/2015/showGames.cgi >> the games can be replayed. >> >> bot_sharp won all three games of round 1 and also >> all three games of round 2. >> >> In round 3 the bot beat the "medium strength" human, >> but lost to the weak one ("chessandgo"). >> The final game against the top human (Browni...) will take place >> on Saturday. >> >> During the first 7 games of the match the bot has reached >> almost Browni's rating. >> ***************************************** >> >> So, this is the second game (after Havannah) where programmers >> caught prize money for beating a strong/the strongest human player. >> Probably, game inventors will understand better now how risky such >> challenges are. >> >> Ingo. >> >> PS. Perhaps, some tricks of bot_sharp may be applied to bots >> in "Connect6". >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> Computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> > >
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