Re: [gnugo-devel] Edmondton impressions

[Arend Bayer]

Hi all,

back from holidays I have just looked at some of the Edmonton games. The
overall result is of course a little worse than what we hoped for, but
the games against Go Intellect and Katsunari should give us lots of
indications where we need to improve GNU Go's fighting skills.

> Among the talks, I found Georg Santze's talk about Dreihirn
> interesting. He is from Althofer's group. The Dreihirn consists
> of a human moderator selecting moves from two computers. The
> resulting agent may be stronger than either the human moderator
> or either program. This is convincingly proved in both Chess
> and Go. An alternative scheme has the moderator selecting
> from the top n moves of a computer program. I think such an
> experiment with GNU Go could be useful in giving an upper
> bound for the strength of metamachine which attempts to
> select the best of GNU Go's top two moves. If such an experiment
> were successful we could try to improve metamachine's selection
> of the top two moves using full board search at 2 ply or deeper.

Maybe I will try to play moderator and see whether I can give GNU Go
plain some handicap.

Arend