Re: [computer-go] Elo and handicap matching

2007-12-06 Thread Lavergne Thomas
n 9x9 and 19x19, I known some people whom I can give 4 or 5 stones on 19x19 but beat me on 9x9 on even games because they practised a lot more than me at this size, but on kgs theses ranks are roughly corelated. Tom On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:05:39PM -0500, Don Dailey wrote: > > > L

Re: [computer-go] New engine? From a Chess programmer perspective.

2007-12-06 Thread Lavergne Thomas
There is also the fact that some amateurs plays a lot of 9x9 game and get a better feeling about it, so when they meet a stronger opponent but who don't have played a lot of game on 9x9 they can crush it. Tom On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:32:45AM +, Jacques BasaldĂșa wrote: > Christoph Birk wrote

Re: [computer-go] Elo and handicap matching

2007-12-06 Thread Lavergne Thomas
If some bot can be setup to play on kgs for enough time to get a solid rank and then put on cgos to get an elo rating with the same configuration we could find a formula to convert elo to kgs ranks. For sure, this is not perfect but I think is good enought. Tom On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:30:15PM

Re: [computer-go] Speed of generating random playouts

2007-11-16 Thread Lavergne Thomas
It come from me ;-) This was a sequel of the first brute force I have used. I must start it with a number, and it search from this one the first number bigger that doesn't violate the violate the tests, add it to the list and repeat this until it have enough numbers. This implementation was very s

Re: [computer-go] Speed of generating random playouts

2007-11-14 Thread Lavergne Thomas
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:11:24PM -0500, Imran Hendley wrote: > I definitely understand the idea now, and it looks very good. However > this implementation could break: > > Say we have pseudoliberties at intersections: 99,100,101. We sum those > up to get 300, divide by the number of pseudolibert

Re: [computer-go] Definition for monte carlo

2007-10-31 Thread Lavergne Thomas
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:07:49PM +0100, Heikki Levanto wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:45:56PM -0400, Jason House wrote: > > Similarly, I've been in won games and gotten bitten by a tesuji by the > > opponent. If I had been just a bit safer in my play, I could have had a > > comfortable win.

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

2007-10-13 Thread Lavergne Thomas
If needed I can also offer an account on a server with space, webserver and an account for you to manage the CGOS server, but I don't have the time to manage it myself. Contact me if needed. Tom On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:31:54PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Ha

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

2007-06-19 Thread Lavergne Thomas
I don't agree with you. In Go, before starting a sequence on the board you have to think a lot about the different possible sequences and the outcomes. You need to think about what you get finally and is there anything better. But when the sequence is started, you have the different variations in m