[Computer-go] Jouni Valkonen's X-Price

[Lars Schäfers]

Hi Jouni and Ingo,

Ingo reminded me of your prize and we, the Gomorra-Team, are actually
thinking about it. Gomorra is able to run on compute clusters and
recently we made some more progress with our parallelization. It allowed
us to come out second in the last two KGS tournaments. For fairness I
must state that several strong programs didn't participated in this
tournaments like Zen. 

The KGS account of Gomorra that was also used at the Computer Olympiad
is gomorra16. If you want to play it, just send me a mail.

In any case, I would say we (and you?) should perhaps wait until about
May and see how the programs perform at that time, short before the EGC.

Best wishes,
Lars

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:33 +0000, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote:
> Hello Jouni,
> 
> thanks for your positive reply. 
> 
> > Who is your canditate? 
> 
> I am not sure if I am allowed to tell now.
> I have informed the programmers about your message.
> They are a team, so it may take a few days until
> they have consensus for a reply.
> 
> 
> > Also, if particular gobot is new to me, I would like to check it's
> > performance at KGS. If it cannot beat me at blitz, it is no use to
> > organize slow match either. 
> 
> That makes sense. 
> 
> One special point with the team is that they hope
> to make trememdous progress within the next six months.
> An X-price match against you as a reward might just be the
> right kick for them to give their very best.
> 
> Ingo.
>