[computer-go] Re: Professional Games With Complete Scoring

[Rémi Coulom]

Dave Dyer wrote:
> At 03:54 PM 7/17/2006, Bjorn Vanberg wrote:
>> I was wondering if there is a database of professional games online that I could access in order to compare the strength of two territory-predicting algorithms. In order to run the algorithms, I would need to have access to the board positions before the end of the game, not just the outcome. Thanks in advance for the help.
> 
> I have a collection of about 100 games with accurate scoring and
> marking of final territories.  It's not online, but I am willing
> to distribute copies.
> 
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If some are interested in such games, there are some there:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/cgo/general.html
(Well, players were not professionnals, but I guess it does not matter much)

They were used in Martin Müller's papers, which provide a lot of good 
ideas to determine life and death in the endgame:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/publications.html

Rémi