Re: computer-go: 21st Century cup results

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Almost.  It was compiled 6 days later, so must have made a few very minor 
changes.

David

At 08:24 PM 7/30/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> Is the version of Many Faces that competed here the same as version 11 that is
> available commercially?
>
> z
>
> David Fotland wrote:
>
> > The 21st Century Cup Computer Go competition was held in Edmonton Canada,
> > on July 27 and 28, 2002. There were 14 participants and 7 rounds.
> >
> > Results are:
> >
> > 1. 7-0 The Many Faces of Go
> > 2. 6-1 Go 4++
> > 3. 5-2 Go Intellect
> > 4. 4-3 Katsunari
> > 5. 4-3 Aya
> > 6. 4-3 Neurogo
> > 7. 3-4 Gnugo
> > 8. 3-4 Explorer
> > 9. 3-4 Smart Go
> > 10. 3-4 Indigo
> > 11. 3-4 Great 5
> > 12. 2-5 Golois
> > 13. 2-5 TSGO
> > 14. 0-7 Hiratsuka
> >
> > Neurogo's result is very impressive since it is a self-trained neural net
> > with minimal reading.
> > Lack of reading hurt it in the game against Many Faces, where it lost 
> by 145.5.
> >
> > Against Go 4++, Many Faces played slower moves in the middle game and fell
> > behind, but
> > invaded the center territory and killed a group to win.
> >
> > Against Go Intellect, Many Faces gave a couple of large targets for attack,
> > but Go Intellect
> > attacked too hard, and Many Faces ended up killing one of its groups to get
> > the lead.  In the
> > late endgame, Go Intellect made a simple life and death error and another
> > group died, so it
> > resigned.
> >
> > Katsunari miscounted liberties in a semeai against Many Faces and lost by
> > 128.5.  Many
> > Faces's closest game was a 27.5 point win against Aya.
> >
> > The games between Many Faces and Go 4++ and Go Intellect are attached.  All
> > games will
> > be available soon on the 21st century web site.
> >
> > -David Fotland
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >    Mfg-goi.sgfName: Mfg-goi.sgf
> >               Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> >
> >    Go4-mfg.sgfName: Go4-mfg.sgf
> >               Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>
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