Re: [gnugo-devel] 261 games 3.1.31 vs 3.1.32

[Marco Scheurer]

On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 02:54  pm, Arend Bayer wrote:
> ...whereas I always feel like buying a Mac when I see the screen shots
> of Sen:te Goban :)

Thanks!

> As I don't think the commercial versions of the top programs include GMP
> (not to speak of GTP), you cannot do such a series automatically.

Yes, it would take time. On the other hand Many Faces is playing on IGS 
and/or NNGS, but it is probably not appropriate to tie it to play 
regression games against GNU Go...


On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 04:31  pm, Daniel Bump wrote:
> About the strangeness of the games, current GNU Go will often start
> to rescue a group, then abandon it because something else seems
> bigger. Sometimes this works out OK because the opponent may invest
> several moves to kill the stones in question. On the other hand
> inconsistent play is a problem that needs to be fixed.

By strange, I was thinking about cases where both GNU Go instances seem 
to avoid contacts and fights and make many extensions (ikken tobi, 
kogeima, kosumi...). This sometimes result, after 50 or so moves, in a 
large spread of "loose" stones all over the board, with patterns that 
seem unnatural to me, or at least very different from what I see in 
human games. Am I making sense? And if so, this is probably to be 
expected, but then I would think that it shows that playing GNU Go 
against itself is not a very good measure of its progress or strength.

marco