Re: [computer-go] U. of Alberta bots vs. the Poker pros

2007-07-27 Thread Arend Bayer
On 7/26/07, chrilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a remarkable result. I think poker is more difficult than Go and > of > course chess. I am as surprised by this statement as everyone else. Of course you have to develop some mixed strategies, try go guess implied pot odds, folding equity

[computer-go] KGS Computer Go Tournament: results

2006-12-05 Thread Arend Bayer
On 12/5/06, House, Jason J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry to be such a pest about the web site status, but the "finished" link for December is wrong (see http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/future.html). While we are at it, I suggest you remove the copy of kgsgtp.xhtml from your webpages. It's wors

Re: [computer-go] Bug in GNU Go's twogtp.py?

2007-01-18 Thread Arend Bayer
Hi, of course you are right, I will take care of fixing this. The best place for bug reports to anything distributed with GNU Go is either http://trac.gnugo.org/ or the GNU Go mailing list (gnugo-devel-at-gnu-dot-org). Arend On 1/18/07, Peter Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem is i

Re: [spam probable] Re: [computer-go] Gnugo vs commercial programs

2007-01-20 Thread Arend Bayer
Hi Sylvain, On 1/10/07, Sylvain Gelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So between the default level (8) and the level 16, there are 7% winning difference at around 50%, which is significant, but do not change "by far" the results Hiroshi posted. It is far less than 100 ELO right? I did not measure th

Re: [computer-go] Gnugo vs commercial programs

2007-01-20 Thread Arend Bayer
On 1/11/07, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 07:52 -0500, Don Dailey wrote: > I agree that Gnugo was written in an absolute non-scalable style. > What > Gnugo does is continually upgrade from year to year.They are > making > their program scale in a painfully manua

Re: [computer-go] an idea... computer go program's rank vs time

2007-01-25 Thread Arend Bayer
Hi Don, On 1/25/07, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's the thought - due > to > the nature of go the increases might not be linear nor consistent > between players of different strengths. I hesitate to venture what > others believe, but it seems based on Ray's and Mark's and others'

Re: [computer-go] people are weaker at 9x9 go

2007-04-11 Thread Arend Bayer
I agree with all David Fotland has been saying. I think every strong go player would agree. In fact, I think I am stronger than most European 4ds at 9x9, simply because I realize it is a serious game, and I realize how early you have to start reading out variations deep enough until you can count

Re: [computer-go] Computer match time

2007-04-12 Thread Arend Bayer
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:56:59AM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't like byo yomi either for computers. Is there a kind of time > control > that simply adds n seconds to each move? Here is an example: You > start > with 5 minutes,

Re: [computer-go] The physics of Go playing strength.

2007-04-15 Thread Arend Bayer
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:11:38PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > Here is what I use: > > gnugo --mode gtp --score aftermath --capture-all-dead --chinese-rules You don't need --score aftermath (or any other score option), but they don't hurt either. Arend ___

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to GNU and to MoGoBot19!

2007-06-19 Thread Arend Bayer
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:45:28PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > I also don't like having to account for move numbers. It's ok if the > computer is tracking this such as online sites, but it's a pain > remembering and keeping up with move numbers in games played on physical > equipment. Have you e

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to GNU and to MoGoBot19!

2007-06-19 Thread Arend Bayer
Sorry, but I disagree with almost anything you say in this post: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 09:32:27PM +0200, Antonin Lucas wrote: > > (I agree that Fischer time is superior for go, but it may take a > long > while until it gains acceptance.) >The thing with Go is that typically