Re: [computer-go] Computer Go tournament at EGF

[David G Doshay <ddoshay@xxxxxxx>]

On 10, Feb 2005, at 1:18 PM, Nick Wedd wrote:

> When I first came across computer Go, computers ran at less than a 
> thousandth of today's speed.  And then, an hour each was thought to be 
> ample.
I disagree. An hour was deemed convenient and about what a human
wanted to wait for a computer. And that is still true today.

None of those programs were strong enough to consider them "ample."

>  I don't want to see computer Go programs behaving like MS operating 
> systems, getting slower in proportion as computers get faster, so that 
> we gain nothing from all the extra speed that Intel offers us.
Or in SlugGo's case IBM as it runs on G4 and G5 boxes ... but I digress.

I think it is worth noting that for the past several years the best Go
programs have played near the 8 kyu level. SlugGo is playing
even with at least one of those programs when giving it a 4 stone
handicap (although I would not say that that means it is a 4 kyu).

In some ways SlugGo is telling us how much more computing power
is needed to play significantly stronger.


Cheers,
David


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