[Computer-go] John got tromped by Zen 1-3

[Don Dailey]

A few years ago this would have been considered a very unlikely result by
most of us!    So Congratulations to Zen,  and a big thanks to John Tromp
for being such a gentleman and making this possible and winning his
(previous) bet and being smart enough not to make a new one!

Don


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Jouni Valkonen <jounivalkonen at gmail.com>wrote:

> hallo,
>
> I think that this match was huge success, although humanity lost. It
> attracted about 300 spectators into each game.
>
> Therefore it would be nice if these kind of gobot challenges would return
> at least every now and then. Once in one or two months, best of three
> matches and with slow time controls 90min + 10min/25stones. Of course there
> is some organizing thing to do by Hideki, Yamato and Rémi (and Aja, if he
> finds a strong hardware somewhere). But we could get very nice data how
> strong gobots really are against humans with slow time controls.
>
> Now Zen did beat European 2 dan. But can it beat a solid European 3 dan or
> equal? Any volunteers?
>
> Zen and CrazyStone may be too weak to challenge strong human 4 or 5 dans
> and above, but they are certainly though peaces for smaller dans.
>
>    –Jouni
>
>
> Here is the fourth game
> http://files.gokgs.com/games/2012/1/17/Zen19N-tromp.sgf
>
>
>
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