[Computer-go] NHK News "Bots will be admitted to pro tournaments"

甲斐徳本 tokumotokai at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 04:50:17 PST 2015


Yes, as noted in lifein19x19.com, apparently this is an announcement of
yet-unnamed 13x13 tournament open to pros, amateurs and bots to be held in
the Spring, 2016.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20151223/k10010350821000.html (Japanese)
Nihon Kiin will be holding a 13x13 Go tournament open to professionals,
amateurs and computer programs in the Spring of next year.  Preliminaries
will be held with about 170 participants total.  4 participant slots will
be reserved for computer programs in the amateur preliminaries.  (No
mention of pro preliminaries. Possibly not decided if there will be one.)
 Computer programs will proceed to the main round to face professionals if
they qualify in the top 2.
According to Nihon Kiin, this will be the first time computer programs are
allowed to participate in a professional Go tournament.
(The rest of the article briefly describes the differences in strengths of
Chess, Shogi and Go software.)

There have been no official release on this from Nihon Kiin as of the end
of business day today as far as I could tell.  With the huge participation (
http://jsb.cs.uec.ac.jp/~igo/eng/participant.html) in the UEC Cup / Densei
Sen in March, this tournament will boost public awareness on computer Go.

Tokumoto


On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Stefan Kaitschick <
stefan.kaitschick at hamburg.de> wrote:

> According to a post in this forum it's 13*13.
>
> http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12553
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