Re: Sharing Secrets (was: [computer-go] Computer Go hardware)

[David G Doshay <ddoshay@xxxxxxx>]

On Oct 21, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Frank de Groot wrote:

> Note to "David G Doshay":
>
> (You are perhaps the builder of the world's best Go program?)
Perhaps. Even if it is true then I do not expect to hold that place for
long, unless we manage to get a stronger Go player to join the team.
But we are having some fun and students are getting degrees, so it
all seems worthwhile.

Before I would feel completely comfortable with the claim that
SlugGo really is the strongest program I would like to automate
games against Go++, which is not easy to do, and I would also
like to play a few hundred games against Go Intellect and any
other strong program in order to find out.

It is my hope that the GNU Go team will be able to look at SlugGo's
output and use it to retune their parameters.

SlugGo also has a long way to go in terms of algorithm and use
of the cluster before we know what can be done with that much
hardware. What we have done so far is pretty simple. But right now
I am still working on code clean-up while others are working on
using hashing to speed things up. SlugGo is slow right now, 90
minutes to 3 hours per game.

> You found a way to convert money into Go playing strength :)
Indeed ... and how nice that this thread did manage to come full
circle and return to computer hardware.

At this time all that hardware is cranking away at physics problems,
not playing Go.


Cheers,
David


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