Re: computer-go: How bad are the public domain go programs?

[Stuart Cracraft <cracraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Was/is there a website URL where I can see GNU Go's progress on
the Internet Go Servers in terms of its rating graph?

At 10:59 AM 1/4/2001 -0800, Daniel Bump wrote:

>> How badly does  gnugo 2.6 and baduki-0.2.9  play?  Are they considered
>> terrible?
>
>> So do I have any  reason to be happy  or are these program just really
>> lousy?
>
>I'd say post one of the games before we could answer that!
>
>GNU Go is weaker than the best commercial programs but it is
>improving. The current development versions contain important
>code which is absent in 2.6 and you should not judge GNU Go
>by a version which is already almost a year old. Get a recent
>version from:
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/devel.html
>
>As far as I know Baduki is no longer being maintained by its
>author. GNU Go 2.6 can give it a 9 stone handicap and usually
>win.
>
>Daniel Bump