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

[steve uurtamo]

;) common go problem for humans -- playing at the speed of your
opponent is almost always a disaster, at least for me.

s.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:23 PM, David Fotland <fotland at smart-games.com> wrote:
> I'll keep it up.  If it crashes and drops off let me know and I'll restart
> it.
>
> In 1998 this was the strongest level and played a game in 30 minutes on a
> fast PC.  Now it plays almost instantly.  It might make beating it a little
> harder.  It plays so fast, it leads the opponent to play fast too.
>
> David
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: computer-go-bounces at dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-
>> bounces at dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Petr Baudis
>> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 11:26 AM
>> To: computer-go at dvandva.org
>> Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Beating old ManyFaces at 29 handicap stones
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 08:59:56AM -0800, David Fotland wrote:
>> > please do not set handicaps just by passing, start with at least 6
>> handicap,
>> > then pass.
>>
>> But how to do that with kgsGtp? It seems to me that the only way is to
>> set up the game as human, then rejoin as a program, like we did it in
>> Tilburg, which is a bit tedious for many-games testing.
>>
>> P.S.: I hope that mfgo1998 will be available on KGS for a longer time
>> period; I will start having some time on my hands again only from
>> the second half of February. Thanks for running it!
>>
>> --
>>                               Petr "Pasky" Baudis
>>       The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will
>>       last at least until we've finished building it.
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