[Computer-go] April KGS bot tournament, 13x13

[Urban Hafner]

Hey Nick,

thanks. Well, the bot is a basic UCT bot. It can beat GnuGo on 9x9 no
problem, but obviously it doesn't translate well to 13x13 or 19x19. It's
strength is also somewhat dependent on the time limit is it's hard to tell
if it's as strong as GnuGo. I'll just leave it on the 13x13 CGOS and it
will become clear in a while how strong it is compared to GnuGo. The 10
minute time limit is close enough to the 9 minutes of the April tournament,
I guess.

Urban

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Nick Wedd <maproom at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Urban,
>
> As a general guideline for how strong a bot must be to enter these events,
> I say it should
> only enter if it has a reasonable chance of beating GNU Go, which at KGS
> 7k is weaker
> than any of the regular players.  If you have implemented kgsGtp, you
> could run your bot
> on KGS against human players to see how strong it is - if you want "rated
> bot" status for
> a stable version of it, I can encourage the admin who can assign this
> status.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nick
>
> On 31 March 2015 at 13:00, Urban Hafner <contact at urbanhafner.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for organising this for so many years, Nick! I think the email
>> is a bit wrong though.
>>
>> Here's the link to the actual tournament:
>> http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=955
>>
>> It's also not 19x19, but (at least according to the KGS page) it's 13x13.
>> :)
>>
>> Now on to my actual question: Are any of the other developers of new bots
>> interested in joining? I JUST got around to implementing UCT and it would
>> be rather boring to enter if I know with 100% certainty that I will loose
>> all my games.
>>
>> Urban
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Nick Wedd <maproom at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The April KGS bot tournament will be this Sunday, April 5th, starting
>>> at
>>> 08:00 UTC and ending by 14:00 UTC.  It will use 19x19 boards, with time
>>> limits of 9 minutes each plus fast Canadian overtime, and komi of 7.5.
>>> There are details at http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=95
>>> <http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=942>5
>>>
>>> I apologise for the short notice. March seems to have passed unusually
>>> fast.
>>>
>>> Please register by emailing me, with the words "KGS Tournament
>>> Registration" in the email title, at maproom at gmail.com .
>>>
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