Re: computer-go: Re: Need help building Graded Gnu Go Problem Database

[Nicol Schraudolph <schraudo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pierce wrote:

> So I asked Thomas Wolf the author of GoTools if he would be willing to
> make a small fraction of his 24,000 problem set available as part of a
> public domain benchmark for go program developers.
>
> He agreed! He's willing to make somewhere between 500-1000 problems
> available. Which is really cool, as the computer-go world will be able
> to have a standard set of problems they can exchange. I'll put them
> under the LGPL (Library Gnu Public License or "Lesser" GPL) so its clear
> that by including them your program doesn't be come public too...

First of all, thanks to Pierce and Thomas Wolf for making this possible!

One suggestion: the problems should be split upfront into two (statistically
matched) sets, one to be used in Go program development, the other reserved
for validation of the "final" program.  While no panacea, this should help
somewhat to prevent the development of programs specialized to solve only
this particular set of problems...

Best wishes,

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