Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-03 Thread Don Dailey
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 10:39 -0700, Markus Enzenberger wrote: > These are different things and therefore you cannot really compare GTP > to UCI > or call UCI more advanced. Yes I can. I have had a lot of experience coding up engines for both protocols and I have no reservations about this, UCI

Re: [computer-go] MC - Estimating a moves true probability of winning

2007-03-03 Thread Jason House
Jacques BasaldĂșa wrote: Hello, Just an explanation on something I may have explained badly. I see we agree in the fundamental. Correcting bias in that estimate should lead to better sampling. This is usually called "continuity correction" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_correction

Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-03 Thread David Doshay
On 3, Mar 2007, at 2:50 AM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: Personally I'd love to see functionality improvements, including: * moving from file to generic URI references * interruption of "thinking" engines I can see the point of sending a message that *requests* the interruption of a thinking engin

Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-03 Thread steve uurtamo
try() and expect() to suffer() or install() signal_handlers() everywhere(). s. - Original Message From: Markus Enzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2007 12:39:28 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] GTPv3 On Saturday 03 March 2007, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:

Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-03 Thread Markus Enzenberger
On Saturday 03 March 2007, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > In an ideal world I'd love to see go move to RFC 3920, but that would > be quite a disruptive shift. this RFC describes an asynchronous message passing system; GTP is more like a simple remote procedure call at Go engines. These are different

Re: [computer-go] GTPv3

2007-03-03 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
From my point of view GTP has two primary virtues: (a) ease of implementation (b) widespread support and interoperability Anything that undermines these two is unwelcome. If you need to do things that GTP doesn't (currently) do, (and i agree that there are many things that it doesn't do that a

Re: [computer-go] KGS bot curiosity

2007-03-03 Thread Nick Wedd
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Doshay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes We are also not understanding what we are seeing with SlugGo in the Computer Room. It is playing games (we don't know where) and we cannot seem to get a game with it. I found out where it was by putting it in my "fan" l

Re: [computer-go] KGS bot curiosity

2007-03-03 Thread Nick Wedd
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, nando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On 3/2/07, Nick Wedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't suppose this matters, but it seems odd. A day or two ago, I launched GnuGo3pt7 to play in the British Room. It played happily there. Then today, I saw it was not in the Br