[Computer-go] Beating old ManyFaces at 29 handicap stones

[Petr Baudis]

  Hi!

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:04:52PM +0100, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote:
> Recently, dynamic komi helped Monte Carlo bots to play better
> in handicap situations. Now I set up a prize for the programmer
> of a bot that beats the old ManyFaces at 29 handicap stones: 
> 1,000 Euro for the first bot that achieves this at least three 
> times in a five games match. The offer ends on December 31, 2020.
> Details will be clarified in a forthcoming website.
> 
> David Fotland is willing to provide the old bot - also for sparring 
> sessions on KGS. 

  Will David also try to compete? :-)

  Of course, for experiments it would be neat to have a binary of this
version, but maybe that would make the challenge too easy (or prone to
overtuning).

  Anyway, sounds wonderful, and Martin Mueller's play in that game is
quite something. I'm looking forward to giving this challenge to Pachi.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
	The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will
	last at least until we've finished building it.