Re: [computer-go] Computer Olympiad photo

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it is very hard to beat the commercial programs on 9x9, 
because they
are not designed or tuned to play well at 9x9.  They are designed for 
19x19, so they
prune more than they need to at 9x9.

I think that Many Faces is relatively weaker at 9x9 compared to 19x19.

David Fotland

At 11:28 AM 12/5/2003 +0100, Erik van der Werf wrote:
> Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
> > I feel some commercial go programmers should enter his
> > program in the 9x9 ICGA go olympiads to let the chess programmers feel
> > where their place is in history... ...in the far past
> "this uni guy with a programming technique from some decades ago" already 
> defeated Go4++ once last year and had quite reasonable results in this 
> years tournament. I think you're too optimistic about the strength of the 
> commercial Go programs. In fact, I think that if one is able to build a 
> program that plays significantly stonger than the latest version of GnuGo, 
> there is a very good chance to win against any commercial program.
>
> Erik
>
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