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

2008-10-31 Thread David Fotland
] MC programs vs. top commercial programs? 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

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

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Osgood
Now that Leela and Many Faces v12 are available for any Windows user to purchase and run (and Fuego is free to tinker with), has anyone tried them against the old guard of commercial programs? KCC Igo, Haruka, Go++, and HandTalk haven't competed in a while so it is hard to tell how much

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 terry mcintyre
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? I recently tried a development version of MGF12

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] MC programs vs. top commercial programs?

2008-10-27 Thread David Doshay
GNU Go won the tournament at the US Go Congress against several MC programs including Many Faces and Leela, but the Many Faces that competed was not quite the newest. David Fotland was working on the program while in Portland and only got the multi-core (to use both cores of a duo)

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

2008-10-27 Thread David Fotland
12 is about 5 stones stronger on 19x19 than version 11. David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:computer-go- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Doshay Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:56 PM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] MC programs vs. top commercial

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

2008-10-27 Thread David Fotland
] On Behalf Of Gian-Carlo Pascutto Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 1:00 PM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] MC programs vs. top commercial programs? terry mcintyre wrote: From: Ian Osgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now that Leela and Many Faces v12 are available for any Windows user