> Just returned from a visit to KGS where Zen seems to have struggled a > bit in recent games. Maybe they're testing out some new ideas? The 9:55 > game against vicmorrow stands out.
Zen19N is the hardware configuration to be used in the GoBet II match, starting Saturday (or Friday evening if you are in the U.S.); hardware is described at http://dcook.org/gobet/ It is half the number of cores of Zen19S and Zen19D (12 4.2Ghz cores, versus 24 cores of differing speeds on three machines). That account was previously used by an 8-core Mac Pro (*) So, we expected its speed to be roughly halfway between its previous existence and Zen19S. (Which shouldn't matter much, maybe half a dan rank.) It seems to have bounced back from the vicmorrow loss. Perhaps John can learn something from that game ;-) BTW, I realized yesterday, with no personal involvement, I am rooting for both players! The voting also has no clear consensus (well, other than that 57% of people think it will be 3-1 to *someone*). Darren *: Why does the KGS rank chart show lots of wobbles in Nov/Dec 2011, when this account did not play between Nov 17th and Jan 13th? It seems to have jumped slightly more than one full rank in strength. -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@dvandva.org http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
