Re: [Computer-go] Leela 0.6.2, OpenCL support, including GTP engines

2016-06-05 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 5/06/2016 5:36, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote: > For all who do not know: LeelaBot is active on KGS, > with a very stable 3-dan rating: > http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=leelabot For what it's worth, the 3d was established by an older version that played the KGS tournament last month. The

[Computer-go] Leela 0.6.2, OpenCL support, including GTP engines

2016-06-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Hi all, I've done a major update of Leela, including integration of DCNN, and optional usage of OpenCL to speed things up via the GPU. https://sjeng.org/leela.html I put a GTP commandline executable on the page. I hope the other people developing engines find this useful - I found the dearth of

Re: [Computer-go] Commercial Go software and high-end users

2016-06-02 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 2/06/2016 0:21, David Ongaro wrote: >> Note that the cuDNN license allows you to install and use as many >> copies of the software as you need, for both individual and >> corporate use. This intentionally permissive license is designed >> to allow cuDNN to be useful in conjunction with

Re: [Computer-go] Commercial Go software and high-end users

2016-06-01 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 31-05-16 22:56, David Ongaro wrote: > Isn't e.g. TensorFlow Apache 2.0 license and would allow its > inclusion in commercial products? TensorFlow relies on CuDNN for good GPU performance. Almost all libraries do, because CuDNN is hand optimized by NVIDIA, and hence rather hard to beat.

Re: [Computer-go] Commercial Go software and high-end users

2016-05-31 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 31/05/2016 20:45, David Ongaro wrote: > I suspect Aja is right and Remi should go the path of integrating the > GPU even if it's just to get more "oomph" for CS. That he tried to > learn GPU programming from scratch is a noble attempt but I guess > it's just to ambitious to accomplish in a

Re: [Computer-go] Selfplay Phenomena

2016-05-23 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 23-05-16 13:57, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote: > Hi Gian-Carlo, > >> Unsurprisingly, self-play favors extreme selectivity, but this does not >> hold against other opponents. > > is this just your personal experience, or are there systematic experiments on > this? > Is it true "only" for MCTS (and

Re: [Computer-go] Hajin Lee will play a live commented game against CrazyStone

2016-05-23 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 22/05/2016 23:07, Álvaro Begué wrote: > Disclaimer: I haven't actually implemented MCTS with NNs, but I have > played around with both techniques. > > Would it make sense to artificially scale down the values before the > SoftMax is applied, so the probability distribution is not as >

Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen!

2016-05-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 10-05-16 16:20, Detlef Schmicker wrote: > OK, this thread is quite long, and I am not sure I saw all posts > :) > > My suggestion, rate the bots on CGOS before the tournament and > take this rating for McMahon or for handicaps. This doesn't work for the reason stated in the exact post you're

Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen!

2016-05-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 10-05-16 00:14, Erik van der Werf wrote: > Oh that's silly! IIRC if your bot is not ranked than users can do all > kind of cheating in the scoring phase (e.g., mark all your living stones > dead). I've not observed this behavior so far. Perhaps because in an unranked game there's no rating to

Re: [Computer-go] KGS bot tournaments: structure

2016-05-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 10-05-16 11:23, Hideki Kato wrote: > CGOS is better place for those lower programs, isn't it? Not really, the pool of opponents is smaller and contains no humans. It sort of depends on what the goal of the author is. Even if she's only interested in measuring vs other computer opponents, a

Re: [Computer-go] Rated Bot status on KGS

2016-05-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 10-05-16 14:39, Adrian Petrescu wrote: > If KGS is indeed still doing that thing where your rating change is > anchored to your opponents' ratings changes long after your game has > finished, then it seems to me the right solution is for wms to simply > disable that anchoring for accounts that

Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen!

2016-05-09 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 10/05/2016 0:01, Erik van der Werf wrote: > Well then why not make that a criterion for entering the tournament? For > any half-decent bot it shouldn't be hard to get a rating. FWIW I requested ranked status for LeelaBot 3 weeks ago and this was not granted. Technically I'm not sure if this

Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen!

2016-05-09 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 9/05/2016 23:16, Erik van der Werf wrote: > Why not McMahon? (possibly with reduced handicap). It works fine in > human Go tournaments. http://senseis.xmp.net/?McMahon How does this work? That page doesn't mention handicaps. Indeed, the idea seems to be to eliminate large strength

Re: [Computer-go] Congratulations to Zen!

2016-05-09 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 09-05-16 16:04, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote: > Another point for discussion: > Although there were only six participants they split in > at least 4 classes, seperated by large gaps in strength: > Zen >> abakus, HiraBot >> LeelaBot >> Imrsel, matilda > Perhaps it makes really sense to think about a

Re: [Computer-go] Go Bot for the Browser?

2016-03-19 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 16-03-16 22:17, Clark B. Wierda wrote: > I'm not familiar with emscripten, but there is a process that will > produce Javascript from Golang code that seems to be pretty robust. emscripten is extremely robust and will produce much faster (and hence stronger) results than a golang->JS

Re: [Computer-go] How about a 39x39 tournament?

2015-04-27 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 27-04-15 09:03, Ingo Althöfer wrote: Some years ago, Gian-Carlo Pascutto had provided a large-board version of Leela. For that he had introduced a natural extension of the sgf board-coordinates. I just followed the official specification, which allows up to 52x52: http://www.red-bean.com

[computer-go] kgsGtp problems

2010-02-08 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Hi all, I'm trying to connect Leela to KGS after a period of absence, but I'm running into the following error with kgsGtp 3.4.1: 8-feb-2010 22:30:41 org.igoweb.kgs.client.gtp.GtpClient d SEVERE: Unexpected disconnect: Error No buffer space available (maximum connections reached?): connect while

Re: [computer-go] Fuego parameter question

2009-12-05 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ben Lambrechts wrote: If you really want to test MFOG against Fuego, it is better to run Fuego on a strong Linux-machine. The Cygwin-version is significantly slower than the full-build I have on the same machine with Fedora. Isn't that just a matter of using a cygwin version with the same

Re: [computer-go] Optiizing combinations of flags

2009-11-23 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Brian Sheppard wrote: In this strategy, one chooses a random number p, and then select the strategy with highest historical mean if p epsilon, and the strategy taken least often otherwise. If epsilon = C*log(n)/n, where n is the number of experiments so far, then the strategy has zero

Re: [computer-go] Experimentation

2009-07-07 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Brian Sheppard wrote: Running on your development computer, you might be limited by clock time. Running on competition hardware, you might not be. Only if the algorithm doesn't scale. Which makes it uninteresting to begin with. -- GCP ___

Re: [computer-go] MCTS, 19x19, hitting a wall?

2009-06-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 22:15:22 Ian Osgood wrote: We have evidence against going this low: Rybka and several other modern engines were ported to the dedicated computers Resurrection (203 MHz StrongArm) and Revelation (500 MHz XScale). Rybka's rating in the SSDF pool on these platforms

Re: [computer-go] MCTS, 19x19, hitting a wall?

2009-06-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 18:48:55 Martin Mueller wrote: Currently, we try to sidestep this fundamental problem by replacing local search with local knowledge, such as patterns. But that does not fully use the power of search. So, has anyone tried recursive UCT (using UCT again in the

Re: [computer-go] MCTS, 19x19, hitting a wall?

2009-06-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
steve uurtamo wrote: But here is someting interesting: In the case of computer chess it has been estimated that the progress in software has been roughly the same as the progress in hardware. Modern chess programs are truly amazing, and not just a result of faster hardware. There is no

Re: [computer-go] Re: Monte Carlo on GPU

2009-05-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Michael Williams wrote: Michael Williams wrote: See the April 30 2009 posting: http://www.tobiaspreis.de/ The CUDA SDK also comes with a sample called Monte-Carlo Option Pricing I don't think there is much more relevance to Go than it also uses random numbers somewhere. -- GCP

Re: [computer-go] a ladder example

2009-05-03 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
terry mcintyre wrote: I promised an example of a monte carlo program mistakenly starting a ladder; here it is. I played white; Leela had a 2 stone handicap and 45 minutes on the clock. Leela's move 32 initiates a ladder. Unfortunately for Leela, I have a ladder breaker at D16. Leela's

Re: [computer-go] Pseudo liberties: Detect 2 unique liberties?

2009-04-08 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
David Fotland wrote: Yes, I walk both chains looking for duplicates. This is quite fast if done efficiently, since group merging is rare enough. I found keeping the liberty arrays to be slower since they are big, so there is more copy overhead in the UCT tree, and they are not cache

Re: [computer-go] time measurement

2009-02-03 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Heikki Levanto wrote: No amount on crypto-mumbo-jumbo will solve the problem that the server will have to trust the program, and its author. Signing can provide some little assurance that the program running today is the same as was running yesterday, but that's about all. As long as we can

Re: [computer-go] [Fwd: ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona]

2009-01-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
terry mcintyre wrote: I notice that the 2008 icga chess tournament is limited to 8 cores. David Levy's justification seems curious to me. He mentions that an early microcomputer held its own against a mighty mainframe, and that many top chess programs run on PCs, but he wishes to discourage

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hardware limits

2009-01-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Dave Dyer wrote: I think general hardware limits are good, because they will permit more teams to be competitive without altering the nature of the competition. So in effect, it's an admission that the strength of some teams should be crippled in a completely arbitrary way, because they

Re: [computer-go] Re: Hardware limits

2009-01-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Mark Boon wrote: Please, don't sneer. ??? I have seen a lot of discussion, but no good reasons that make sense for the decision that was made. What Davy Dyer said IS a good reason, and most likely the real one. But the people in favor of the decision will not like to admit this. So it's good

Re: [computer-go] Re: GCP on ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona

2009-01-10 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ingo Althöfer wrote: What prevents you from freezing in your chess activities for the next few months and hobbying full (free) time on computer go. The amount of chess players compared to the amount of go players. -- GCP ___ computer-go mailing

Re: [computer-go] Nullmoves in MCTS and UCT?

2008-12-23 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Rémi Coulom wrote: Did you manage to get something to work with null move ? When Leela runs the first simulation in a node, it plays 2 moves for the same side, then does a playout. If the playout loses for the not-passing side, I add x lost games to the RAVE values. I got maybe 10 ELO or so

Re: [computer-go] Nullmoves in MCTS and UCT?

2008-12-22 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Rémi Coulom wrote: Null-move pruning only make sense in alpha-beta. MCTS/UCT are more like min-max. They do no alpha-beta pruning, so cannot do null-move pruning. Null move works like this: if after passing and a small search the position still looks good, do not do a bigger search. There is

Re: [computer-go] MC programs vs. top commercial programs?

2008-10-27 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ian Osgood wrote: (For that matter, it isn't a foregone conclusion that they are better; GNU Go won the 2008 US computer go tournament against a field MC programs.) Believe me, in match long enough to exclude pure luck, with the MC programs running on something faster than a Pentium 4, it IS

Re: [computer-go] MC programs vs. top commercial programs?

2008-10-27 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
terry mcintyre wrote: From: Ian Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now that Leela and Many Faces v12 are available for any Windows user to purchase Thanks for the heads-up, I must have missed the announcement. Do either of these worthy programs work with Wine on Linux? You can try the free

Re: [computer-go] Tiebreak 9x9 in Beijing complete

2008-10-05 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ingo Althöfer wrote: This last game is interesting because it was a win for Black. However, so far it is not completely clear which game it is: * Is it game 4 from http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/round.php?tournament=180round=10 or is it (more likely in my eyes) from

Re: [computer-go] Re: Tiebreak 9x9 in Beijing ?!

2008-10-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Hideki Kato wrote: I don't know the detail but the cluster (or the connection) had some trouble and the play-off will be resumed this morning (at Beijing time; +0800). Leela has been online and ready the whole night but I still see no sign of the Mogo team. Since it is now 9:25 Beijing time,

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to David Fotland!

2008-10-02 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ingo Althöfer wrote: Rank 2 for MoGo after tiebreak against Leela. Hello, the tiebreak is not yet finished! Place 2 and 3 are still undecided. -- GCP ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] 7.5-komi for 9x9 in Beijing

2008-10-02 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ingo Althöfer wrote: Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: I'd have some preference for playing the decisive game with komi = 6.5, but apparently thats not possible on KGS. But that should not be a problem, as long as the operators do not believe in the final verdict of KGS. But KGS will tell

Re: [computer-go] Correct Komi for 6x6 is 2.0

2008-09-30 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: 4. I believe Leela, at a higher level and with a correction book would play perfect or very close to perfect on 6x6. This may depend on seki issues however, it may not be possible for Leela (or other Go programs) to play perfectly without some minor

Re: [computer-go] Results of recent Computer Go events

2008-09-29 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
David Fotland wrote: Mogo and Many Faces played round 3 early, on KGS. One game was scored by both programs as a win for Many Faces, but the board has a seki, so the correct score is Mogo wins. I think the monthly KGS tournaments would give this win to Many Faces since both programs agreed

Re: [computer-go] Analysis of 6x6 Go

2008-09-27 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: The only thing I know to check is to see if I am sending the proper komi to the programs.The only other possible glitch is that the version of leela I am using is ignoring the komi I send - but I don't think this is the case. The problem was that Leela reset the komi

Re: [computer-go] 2008 Olympiad

2008-09-19 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ian Osgood wrote: I no longer see CrazyStone nor GoLois in the list of participants for 19x19. I do hope Chen Zhixing decides to enter HandTalk. It's surprising CrazyStone is gone, as Remi's talk is still listed. What happened? It should have been a podium candidate. By the way, there is a

Re: [computer-go] Re: Disputes under Japanese rules

2008-09-16 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Disputes that beginners get into are another class of disputes that these rules cannot easily resolve without the beginner feeling as if they were being handled.You pretty much have to rely on his good nature to eventually just accept the result without questioning it. At some point you

Re: [computer-go] Goal-directedness of Monte-Carlo

2008-09-08 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Especially I was able to reproduce the following behaviour of MC in a very clear model: MC is playing most goal-directed (zielgerichtet in German) when the position is balanced or when the side of MC is slightly behind. However, when MC is clearly ahead or clearly behind it is playing

Re: [computer-go] Goal-directedness of Monte-Carlo

2008-09-08 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: That probably just means I have not stumbled on the right ideas or that I was not able to properly tune it. I would be delighted if someone was able to show us a workable scheme. I believe if something is found it will result in a very minor improvement, but that it will

Re: [computer-go] Goal-directedness of Monte-Carlo

2008-09-08 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: Would a discrepancy on the amount of ELO gained or lost per handicap stone, when comparing MC bots to humans classical computers, be a good measure of the maximum possible improvement? Maybe. How could you accurately make such a measurement without thousands of games?

Re: [computer-go] Time controls in bots vs human matches

2008-09-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Andy wrote: I think for bot vs human, the time control should include byoyomi/overtime of some kind instead of sudden death. I'm afraid in one of these exhibition matches the human will be winning but lose on time. It would be especially bad if the bot was playing meaningless invasions or

Re: [computer-go] Time controls in bots vs human matches

2008-09-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Andy wrote: Just to prevent losing a won game on time. By the way, most bots on KGS resign lost games. So most people who lose on time are usually in a lost position themselves. There are exceptions with difficult LD situations, but really, I expect almost nothing to happen to the bots

Re: [computer-go] Kaori-Crazystone

2008-09-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Rémi Coulom wrote: I would like to see MogoTiTan play many rated games on KGS and see how it does there. Anyone have a few million dollars lying around to sponsor this? :) Leela is becoming strong. It has reached 1k now. The gold medal in Beijing will not go to France without a fight!

Re: [computer-go] Time controls in bots vs human matches

2008-09-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: In such a case, I think it's better for the human not to have a time control at all. This is more satisfying than having a human lose on time, but giving the win to him anyway under the assumption that he didn't really need all that time even though he used it. I think

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-14 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
One might consider heuristics like AMAF, pattern knowledge, etc. to be simply a more effective way to guide exploration. The UCB term has no domain-specific knowledge. It works surprisingly well but it should be no surprise that one can do better with domain-specific knowledge. The problem of

Re: [computer-go] What was the specific design of the Mogo version which beat the pro...

2008-08-13 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
steve uurtamo wrote: And what language/platform is Mogo written in; C/C++, Java, Assembly, PHP, etc.? This made coffee spray out of my nose (PHP). I think that C is most likely, based upon how they parallelized it. Did you read the list posting that mentioned (briefly) how they scaled it up?

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-13 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Mark Boon wrote: Not an expert on AB-search or UCT search but there's a subtle difference I think. In AB search, if some processors have been searching in a branch that is subsequently cut off, the work is 100% wasted. In UCT there's no such black-and-white cutting. If you do sampling in what

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
terry mcintyre wrote: Thank you! At present, computer go programs may be strong relative to each other, and they may actually beat some humans of moderate ability, especially at timescales too quick for amateur humans, but most programs also have high-kyu-sized gaps in their knowledge,

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
My first impression of watching the game was that Leela was handicapped by having a handicap. By that I mean it would have seen itself so far ahead for the first few moves that is was playing arbitrarily. In fact, Leela thought itself ahead at 80% for most of the game. It's only in the last

RE: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Uct also has the advantage that it is much easier to use with multiple CPUs. I know parallel alpha-beta exists, but my evaluation function is not designed to be thread safe. If I put a big lock around it, there will be almost no SMP scaling, since almost all the time is in the evaluation,

RE: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 20:39 -0700, David Fotland wrote: Uct also has the advantage that it is much easier to use with multiple CPUs. I know parallel alpha-beta exists, but my evaluation function is not designed to be thread safe. If I put a big lock around it, there will be almost no SMP

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Mr. Okasaki, a strong amatur, tested MoGo with a 9 stones handicap game at winning rate around 50% by adjusting komi on each move and reported it played clearly stronger than others, say, on KGS and the cluster version at Paris. Unfortunately it sounds rather like a subjective measurement.

RE: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 09:15 +0200, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: Aside from that, it's not theorethically necessary for alpha-beta to do wasted work (although it will in practise), and more CPUs can make the program worse on any practical architecture (mostly due to locking and memory bandwidth

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On 12-aug-08, at 10:40, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: Well... no. Because if you have a perfectly ordered tree, in theory, you don't need to search at all. You need to search it to *prove* that it's perfectly ordered :-) -- GCP ___ computer-go

RE: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:40 +0200, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: Even in the theorethical case of a perfectly ordered game tree? I'll have to check my facts, but I remember seeing actual numbers on this. It has something to do with the minimial tree and it was a proof think that alpha-beta

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: We need to define terms so we don't end up arguing about something we probably agree on. Here is my assertion (which I admit needs to be checked): Given perfect move ordering, but not a-priori knowledge of this, a parallel program will search more nodes on average than a

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Jason House wrote: Maybe the best method is to mix the top down style of MTD(f) to drive localized alpha beta searches. MTD(f) *is* a sequence of alpha-beta searches. I definitely don't have all the answers. MTD(f) doesn't parallelize any better than normal alpha-beta. The only

Re: [computer-go] Re: mogo beats pro!

2008-08-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: Here is an important snippet, but proofs follow in the paper: The critical path length C is the time it would take for the program to run on an infinite-processor machine with no scheduling overheads. Note that it doesn't mention anything about useful WORK, because this is

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Xiao Ai Lin, 1p vs LeelaBot This game did happen. It was not meant as a challenge, but as a friendly game to get an idea of what can be done to develop the leading programs on 9x9. It was relayed to the cinema-screen as a warm-up before MoGo's game. I will be back with the review as an

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], When I look at the game record, I see that at the end, the pro has 7:59 left, Leela 4:25. And Black is totally lost: White will capture the d4 group which only has two liberties, connecting her three groups which already have at least four liberties each, and

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], This was foolish of me because I had resumed the game, and was allowing LeelaBot's time to pass. I have carelessly destroyed the evidence of LeelaBot's remaining time. There is now only my word (and perhaps the operator's) for my claim that LeelaBot had more

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Erik van der Werf wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She was also a bit unlucky in the sense that Leela did not understand it was dead lost. I use quotes because had it understood better it was losing, it would have put up more of a fight

[computer-go] Cultural differences: players vs programmers

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:26 +0200, Rémi Coulom wrote: Basti Weidemyr wrote: What would you have done in a case like this? :) You could not declare that game a win for the computer and survive. Yes, and I really hate this. You have a situation where the actual winner has

Re: [computer-go] Re: Strength of Monte-Carlo w/ UCT...

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Robert Waite wrote: whether or not computers can beat humans at go on a 19x19 board in a reasonable amount of time is unrelated to mathematics. Why? Let's say you can prove that the game is solvable so that black wins. Let's say that you can prove that it is solvable in linear time. You

Re: [computer-go] Cultural differences: players vs programmers

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
terry mcintyre wrote: I guess we're all different. Last week, I actually did win a 9-stone handicap game in a simul match against a pro, but I'm not about to claim that this gives me bragging rights or anything, lol. [explanation of how this game made you a better player deleted] I see. If

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Jason House wrote: On Aug 11, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be angry if I worked hard to control my time usage, only for my opponent to be forgiven at my expense, despite the rules. Hmmm... This sounds very familiar... Yes. Notice how there is a clear

Re: [computer-go] Re: What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Erik van der Werf wrote: You're right, my reply was sloppy (it seems I'm too much used to Japanese rules). Also I should have read GCP's email more carefully; I did not realize that his program, even with a large tree, would not be able to recognize the seki. I knew of course that the original

[computer-go] What's happening at the European Go Congress?

2008-08-09 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Hi all, there doesn't seem to be any news from the European Go Congress. Nevertheless, I see that partial results were posted: 19 x 19 Results 1st Crazy Stone 6/6 2nd Leela 5/6 3rd Many Faces of Go4/6 9 x 9 Results 1st Leela

Re: [computer-go] Monte Carlo evaluation in chess

2008-07-21 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Álvaro Begué wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Rémi Coulom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rybka 3 has Monte-Carlo evaluation: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4772 If I understand the release note correctly, Monte Carlo Analysis is something like a feature of the GUI for

Re: [computer-go] EGC 2008 computer go event

2008-07-07 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
As I'm sure all those interested already know that there is a computer go event in European Go Congress: http://www.computer-go.info/egc2008/ If someone needs an operator, I can be one (as I have been in Sweden several times, so sightseeing on the rest days is not a must for me).

Re: [computer-go] 2008 World 9x9 Computer Go Championship in Taiwan

2008-07-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
This was just announced on the ICGA Tournaments web site: http://go.nutn.edu.tw/eng/main_eng.htm It is right before the Computer Olympiad, and registration is free for participants in the Olympiad. That event runs 26 (computer-computer) and 27 September (human-computer). The Human-Computer

Re: [computer-go] Hardware at US Go Congress tournament

2008-07-02 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Peter Drake wrote: I *think* the two processors are actually two-way hyperthreading, but I'd have to check. physical id : 0 [...] physical id : 0 They are indeed hyperthreading, not real CPUs. -- GCP ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] 2008 World 9x9 Computer Go Championship in Taiwan

2008-07-02 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Ian Osgood wrote: By contrast, the ICGA Go events never get top candidate program participation, and before this year have had smaller turnouts than the chess event. Since the expiration of the Ing Prize, the last event of any kind which had such participation was the 2003 Gifu Challenge (KCC

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [computer-go] Computer Olympiad registration reminder: 11 days left]]

2008-06-09 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Rémi Coulom wrote: Some answers by the organizers. [...] 2) Cluster Computing Is allowed. However, we don't have confirmation regarding the internet access. The Chinese are busy with it. I am surprised. I thought that remote hardware would be forbidden for the go tournament. For sure

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to LeelaBot2 and to CzechBot

2008-05-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: If it is indeed a KGS flaw I may add a workaround to Leela as simple as doing time = time / 10 as soon as winrate 95% or so. There is still a possibility of losing on time then but it should happen less. That is almost the identical heuristic

Re: [computer-go] Congratulations to LeelaBot2 and to CzechBot

2008-05-07 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Evan Daniel wrote: It is entirely within the power of the other bots to not lose on time. I am not sure that is true. LeelaBot should be perfectly capable of playing about 12 moves per second in the default configuration. However, it seems either KGS or kgsGtp do not (correctly) account

Re: [computer-go] scalability with the quality of play-outs.

2008-04-22 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: The rest of your story is rather anecdotal and I won't comment on it. Are you trying to be politely condescending? No! Thing is: 1) I disagree with quite a few things which I have no interest in arguing (much) about because... 2) I wouldn't trust any opinion (including

Re: [computer-go] Test position set for MC programs

2008-04-22 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
I attached the fixed version to this email. Thanks for your help. Leela 0.3.14 1k - 19/50 passes 10k - 28/50 passes 100k - 36/50 passes -- GCP ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] scalability with the quality of play-outs.

2008-04-22 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: BOTH versions have NullMove Pruning and History Pruning turned off because I feel that it would bias the test due to interactions between selectivity and evaluation quality (I believe it would make the strong version look even more scalable than it is.) There is nothing in

Re: [computer-go] scalability with the quality of play-outs.

2008-04-21 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
A van Kessel wrote: decades it has been understood that a chess program with a better evaluation function improves MORE with increasing depth than one with a lesser evaluation function so it appears that Go is not unique in this Well, isn't that trivial? suppose, you have a perfect

Re: [computer-go] scalability with the quality of play-outs.

2008-04-21 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
A van Kessel wrote: I don't understand how what you describe relates at all to the study. It doesn't. It is a reaction to Don's explanation of it. I don't think what you say can relate in any way to chess or alpha-beta either. Alpha-beta gets better with increasing depth even with a random

Re: [computer-go] scalability with the quality of play-outs.

2008-04-21 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: It looks like we have a clear trend now. Light play-outs do not scale as well as heavy play-outs. This is the same behavior we get with computer chess. For the last few decades it has been understood that a chess program with a better evaluation function improves MORE

Re: [computer-go] scalability with the quality of play-outs.

2008-04-21 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: First of all, I am not aware of any published work on this specific thing. There may be some, but I'm not aware of it. Thanks, this was what I was curious about. The rest of your story is rather anecdotal and I won't comment on it. Note that I agree on the starting

Re: [computer-go] Scalability study request

2008-04-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Don Dailey wrote: Gian-Carlo, We could probably add this new version to the mix and extend the study.But what kind of data has your own testing produced? Do you have an indication that it is roughly as strong at the same basic time setting (because of it's being 3X faster or so?) It is

Re: [computer-go] Scalability study request

2008-04-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't the total number of playout simply relates to the search ply depth? I have no idea what you mean or what the relevance is in the discussion. -- GCP ___ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org

Re: [computer-go] My experience with Linux

2008-04-12 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: Since I sell software, building Linux apps is out of the question, since Linux users will insist that I give them my work for free. OK ? Many companies creates linux software and make a good living. Sendmail is one of them. They don't make a living

[computer-go] Scalability study request

2008-04-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Hi all, the result of the scalability study at http://cgos.boardspace.net/study/13/index.html seems to look a lot like 2 parallel lines over the entire range, which I find very surprising, since I'd have expected at least some differences caused by different playout strategies. I am now

Re: [computer-go] Scalability study request

2008-04-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Olivier Teytaud wrote: I am now wondering if scalability could be unaffected by playouts (just adding a constant offset) and only depend on the UCT/search implementation. From the publications of the MoGo team it seems likely that the programs are very similar there. Leela and mogo are

Re: [computer-go] Scalability study request

2008-04-11 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Olivier Teytaud wrote: light-playout variant of leela, but perhaps the nakade-patch version of mogo and maybe even some third no problem for the nakade-patch version of mogo, but results are only known in 9x9, no idea for 13x13. Maybe it is better, maybe it is worse :-) At 9x9 you see a

Re: [computer-go] Yet another question on uct and rave

2008-03-28 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
So to sum up we have the following pseudo code : at a given node : - find the child (among the visited child only) that maximizes de UCT-RAVE value - if this maximum UCT-RAVE value is less than FPU value and if there still exisits unvisited nodes : choose one unvisited node - continue

Re: [computer-go] Computer Go event in European Go Congress, Sweden

2008-03-16 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Unfortunately, no-one has yet registered. If you are considering entering, please do so soon (either by telling me or via the Congress web site), otherwise there is a danger that the computer event will be cancelled. To prevent chicken and egg problems: for me both the timing and the

Re: [computer-go] Re: Should 9x9 komi be 8.0 ?]

2008-03-04 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Magnus Persson wrote: Quoting Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just to make it clear, the case we want to fix is the case where many bots are programmed to resign. Lazarus will resign when the score is below 1% (and has remained so for a couple of moves in a row which is probably just a

Re: [computer-go] f(score) instead of sign(score)

2008-02-28 Thread Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Hi Jonas, welcome to the list. The idea of using f(score) instead of sign(score) is interesting. Long ago, I tried tanh(K*score) on 9x9 (that was before the 2006 Olympiad, so it may be worth trying again), and I found that the higher K, the stronger the program. Still, I believe that other

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