Re: [computer-go] FPGA to Hardware

2007-11-26 Thread William Shubert
I work for a smallish company that makes chips. FPGA is hugely cheaper than an ASIC for the quantities you are talking about. A shuttle, meaning small quantity of sample chips on a die shared with other companies, still costs tens of thousands of dollars. And I think that my company only gets on

Re: [computer-go] KGS connection

2007-11-10 Thread William Shubert
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:13 -0800, Christoph Birk wrote: What is the reasoing behind not rating bots? Christoph A beginner could easily run gnugo for a day or two, get a 7k rank for the gnugo account, then replace gnugo with an account that moves randomly for a few moves then resigns. Play

Re: [computer-go] KGS connection

2007-11-09 Thread William Shubert
TCP Port 2379 on goserver.gokgs.com This is an outbound connection from your system. No other connection is needed. On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 09:59 +0100, Olivier Teytaud wrote: Does someone know which port of which server can be accepted by KGS for launching a bot (we have tedious troubles with

Re: [computer-go] XML alternatives to SGF

2007-10-25 Thread William Shubert
I'm not an authority on SGF, but I am the owner of one of the larger SGF libraries (the KGS archives, 19,599,303 games as of this moment), and author one of the more common SGF editors (CGoban 3). Everybody wants something different from a SGF replacement. The syntax of SGF sucks, but once you