[computer-go] October KGS Computer Go tournament: small boards, slow

2007-10-01 Thread Nick Wedd
The October 2007 KGS computer Go tournament will be next Sunday, October 7th, in the Asian avening, European morning and American night, starting at 08:00 UTC (GMT) and ending about 14:00 UTC (GMT). The Formal division will be a 6-round Swiss with 9x9 boards and 28 minutes each sudden death.

Re: [computer-go] ego110_allfirst on CGOS

2007-10-01 Thread Don Dailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason House wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 12:41 -0400, Don Dailey wrote: 4. correctness of random move selection strategy. Pick a random empty position. If illegal or eye-filling, remove from consideration the list and repeat. Same basic idea.

Re: [computer-go] ego110_allfirst on CGOS

2007-10-01 Thread Don Dailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steve uurtamo wrote: Strangely enough, it now appears that hb-amaf-1k-v2 is significantly stronger than genAnchor-1k, defeating it 9 out of 9 times. I still have to wonder what the cause of the strength difference is. now is the time to just

Re: [computer-go] ego110_allfirst on CGOS

2007-10-01 Thread Jason House
Actually, that sounds almost exactly like what I do (if you reverse the order of your lists). I use an array with index numbers, but the same logic applies, complete with swap and bump of counters. On a capture, I don't do brute force, but rather append the captured points to my list of empty

[computer-go] Update of MoGo binary release, and windows version available!

2007-10-01 Thread Gilles Arcas
I have released a new version of Drago (3.01) which can be interfaced with MoGo. It can be downloaded at http://www.godrago.net . It makes available fixed and free handicap, undo, scoring and starting from any position. The issue described by Dave should be corrected. Regards Gilles Arcas

[computer-go] Python bindings for libego?

2007-10-01 Thread Heikki Levanto
Hi, I was thinking that it could be quicker to do prototyping in something like python, while having fast low-level functions in C. Since we already have Lukasz Lew's ego library, I wonder if anyone has written a wrapper around it to call it from python (or ruby, perl, or some other scripting

Re: [computer-go] Python bindings for libego?

2007-10-01 Thread Don Dailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder if anyone has written a wrapper around it to call it from python (or ruby, perl, or some other scripting language). ... P.S. Not trying to start any sort of language war here... Why use any of those highly inferior languages you

Re: [computer-go] Python bindings for libego?

2007-10-01 Thread Heikki Levanto
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:27:55PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: P.S. Not trying to start any sort of language war here... Why use any of those highly inferior languages you mentioned when you could do it Lua, the best language ever invented and highly superior (in every possible way) to all

Re: [computer-go] Python bindings for libego?

2007-10-01 Thread Don Dailey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I forgot about ETA, clearly even superior to Lua. - - Don Heikki Levanto wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:27:55PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: P.S. Not trying to start any sort of language war here... Why use any of those highly inferior languages

Re: [computer-go] Python bindings for libego?

2007-10-01 Thread terry mcintyre
ROTFLMAO! Years back, I had the assignment of writing a compiler for a subset of C. A temporary come from opcode expedited the generation of assembler code. My professor, fortunately, had a sense of humor. Terry McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern.

Re: [computer-go] Python bindings for libego?

2007-10-01 Thread Darren Cook
I was thinking that it could be quicker to do prototyping in something like python, while having fast low-level functions in C. Since we already have Lukasz Lew's ego library, I wonder if anyone has written a wrapper around it to call it from python (or ruby, perl, or some other scripting