[computer-go] Congratulations to Crazy Stone!

[Nick Wedd]

In message 
<6054b7b40707090648g52b90b00g39e7c7bdd8a2e266 at mail.gmail.com>, Jason 
House <jason.james.house at gmail.com> writes
>Open Division Round 1
> - You mention AyaBot2 joining it's game with CrazyStone.  That should
>be HBotSVN.

Yes, my mistake, now corrected

> - "Printing name and version number" happens when the bot crashes,
>kgsGtp terminates, and a script automatically reconnects the bot, and
>the cycle repeats.  It may be better to say that the SimonBot engine
>kept crashing when trying to score the game?

Yes.  Now rewritten as you suggest.

>Open Division Round 5
> - I personally thought the IdiotBot/HBotSVN game had an interesting
>end position.  Despite the extreme weakness of HBotSVN (simply using
>the UCB algorithm), the position was problematic for several monte
>carlo engines.  HBotSVN thought it had a 100% chance of victory though
>the bulk of the end of the game because the random playouts assumed
>idiotbot would fill one of its eyes.

I am interested to see that UCB does indeed have that effect.  We were 
discussing it this morning, and wondering if a pure UCB program would be 
happy about its opponent have a two-point group, expecting one of them 
to get filled in.

But I doubt this would be of general interest to programmers?

>Also, HB04 does not show up in the names of programs page.  Of course,
>the housebot logins are piling up:
>HouseBot: Intended for stable version of HouseBot.  It's the only
>ranked account.
>HB04 - Very old HouseBot 0.4 - Extremely fast play based on 1-ply move
>heuristics
>HB05 - HouseBot 0.5 - Global alpha-beta search
>HBotSVN - Latest and greatest version of HouseBot, generally
>experimental.  Once upon a time, it was version 0.5 .  In this last
>tournament, it was version 0.6.

I've added all that now.  Thank you for explaining these differences, 
and for pointing out the other errors.

Nick
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Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk