Here is some praise I am more than happy to send Don's way: Prior to CGOS testing was difficult and rife with self-play induced errors. As soon as CGOS was available any aspiring Go programmer could test in a framework that gave a much better estimate of improving playing strength. From my perspective, CGOS was a gift to Go programmers of great importance. I sincerely thank you for that.
I am sorry to hear of your health problems and hope that with focus and a good attitude you have the computer chess success you are looking for. I do understand because, although I did not know it at the time, my heart problems signaled the end of my Go programming days. Cheers, David G Doshay ddos...@mac.com On 30, Sep 2013, at 5:28 AM, Don Dailey <dailey....@gmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate the praise! > > Don > > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Janzert <janz...@janzert.com> wrote: > Don, > > Thank you for all your contributions to the game programming community > (including Arimaa, Chess and Go in my personal experience). Best of luck with > Komodo, you've already made great progress with it. > > Janzert > > > On 9/29/2013 8:49 AM, Don Dailey wrote: > I've had some great fun with computer go but I'm stepping out of it now > due to health problems and in order to focus on more important things > if/while I still have a little time. > > Joshua Shriver is taking over CGOS duties, and is getting a new cgos > server up and running - and I will give him temporary support if/when I > can if needed, but he is a pretty capable system administrator so it > should go relatively smoothly. > > If I can I'll check in from time to time. Right now I'm focusing on > computer chess and hoping to have the strongest program in the world - > Komodo is very close and it's a fight for the top 3. > > I had dreams of competing also for the strongest go engine but there are > only so many hours in a day and so much energy to go around - and I am > much more handicapped (no pun intended) in GO as my knowledge of the > game is beginner level but in chess I'm a relatively competent > tournament player - or at least I used to be. So chess was a better > fit for me. > > I'll update the archives. We may want to store the games elsewhere as > I don't know if Dave is willing to store this data on his server - it's > a lot of data. > > Don > > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@dvandva.org > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@dvandva.org > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
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