Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to ManyFaces and to MoGo!

2008-10-13 Thread Urban Hafner
Jason House wrote: > I also think the hardware for HBotSVN may be wrong, but I'll let Urban > confirm. That's true. HBotSVN ran on the same type of hardware as Housebot (even though the two computers are at different ends of the world), namely AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ Urb

Re: [computer-go] java reference bot

2008-10-13 Thread Don Dailey
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 23:21 -0400, Joshua Shriver wrote: > Is the source available would be neat to see. Yes, get it here: http://cgos.boardspace.net/public/javabot.zip It includes a unix style simple Makefile. For you java programmers: I'm sure you won't like it - I'm not a java programmer

Re: [computer-go] java reference bot

2008-10-13 Thread Joshua Shriver
Is the source available would be neat to see. -Josh On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made a reference bot and I want someone(s) to help me check it out > with equivalent data from their own program. There are no guarantees > that I have this correct of

Re: [computer-go] java reference bot

2008-10-13 Thread Don Dailey
A minor correction in the GTP ref-score command. Score is not from blacks point of view, but from the point of view of the player who's turn to move it is. - Don On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 19:14 -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > I made a reference bot and I want someone(s) to help me check it out > with e

[computer-go] java reference bot

2008-10-13 Thread Don Dailey
I made a reference bot and I want someone(s) to help me check it out with equivalent data from their own program. There are no guarantees that I have this correct of course. Doing 1 million play-outs from the opening position I get the following numbers for various komi: playouts:1,000,000

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to ManyFaces and to MoGo!

2008-10-13 Thread Jason House
On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Nick Wedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The results of yesterday's KGS bot tournament are now available at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/43/index.html As always, I look forward to your corrections. You give HBotSVN too much credit in the round 8 open game. Seki i

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to ManyFaces and to MoGo!

2008-10-13 Thread Seo Sanghyeon
2008/10/14 Nick Wedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The results of yesterday's KGS bot tournament are now available at > http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/43/index.html Formal division round 1 position has a technical name, you may want to mention it: http://senseis.xmp.net/?SendingTwoReturningOne -- Se

[computer-go] Congratulations to ManyFaces and to MoGo!

2008-10-13 Thread Nick Wedd
The results of yesterday's KGS bot tournament are now available at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/43/index.html As always, I look forward to your corrections. Nick -- Nick Wedd[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-g

Re: [computer-go] simple MC reference bot and specification

2008-10-13 Thread Don Dailey
I think I already add a 13, so you must mean 14 :-) - Don On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 09:48 -0400, steve uurtamo wrote: > sorry to be pedantic, but: > > 13. Chinese scoring. > > s. > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 13:33 +0100, Cla

Re: [computer-go] Anyone With Measures for MiniMax & LightSimulations

2008-10-13 Thread terry mcintyre
Nick's remarks about teaching computer programs which they understand rang a bell. Recently, I operated a beta version of MFG12 at the Cotsen tournament. It appears to have a very strong tendency to stake out a large center territory. If the players permit this to be solidified, MFG wins. But i

Re: [computer-go] simple MC reference bot and specification

2008-10-13 Thread steve uurtamo
sorry to be pedantic, but: 13. Chinese scoring. s. On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 13:33 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: >> I have a rough idea of what that might be. And I suspect that keeping >> this >> "de facto standard" implicit has

Re: [computer-go] Anyone With Measures for MiniMax & LightSimulations

2008-10-13 Thread Nick Wedd
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes < snip > I've always thought Joseki for computers is pretty dicey, but I'm not really qualified to judge this well as I don't play go.But perhaps joseki is nothing more that a pattern database to suggest moves and you st

Re: [computer-go] komi study with CGOS data

2008-10-13 Thread Erik van der Werf
Don, thanks for providing these statistics! Overall it suggests that on CGOS White only has a small advantage. I still don't like this, but it is not nearly as bad as I initially suspected. The initially decreasing percentages are somewhat puzzling. One might speculate that up to a certain level