[computer-go] Congratulations to GNU Go!

[Nick Wedd]

In message <46DDD6EC.1070002 at gmail.com>, Jason House 
<jason.james.house at gmail.com> writes
> Has anyone verified "Hb04 now refused to proceed with the game, 
>neither agreeing nor disagreeing about which stones were alive"?  At 
>the start of the tournament, HB04 supported genmove and 
>"final_status_list dead", but not kgs-genmove_cleanup.  HB04 played to 
>what it considered the end of the game and then gave a legitimate 
>response to "final_status_list dead" that I posted into the game chat 
>(copied from kgsGtp's log file).
> As I understand the game end protocol, HB04 not supporting 
>kgs-genmove_cleanup should not cause the game to hang.  If both bots 
>don't agree on "final_status_list dead", bots that support cleanup will 
>cleanup and then all stones are considered alive.  If anything, HB04 
>would simply get a worse score.
>  I suspect that the issue was with MoGoBot2.  Since I knew hb04 
>wouldn't clean up in the event of a disagreement, I tried to adjust 
>when HB04 would pass between rounds 2 and 3 to avoid any future issues 
>in the tournament.  I overcompensated and HB04 played as described in 
>round 2.  I got the tuning right for round 3 (and beyond).
>
>Also, it appears that HBotSVN crashed before its second move in round 5.

Thank you for telling me about these things - I have now corrected the 
page.

Nick

>
>Nick Wedd wrote:
>> Congratulations to GNU Go, the winner of both divisions of last 
>>Sunday's KGS bot tournament.  MoGoBot might have done better but it 
>>was suffering from a bug that caused it to time out.
>>
>> My report is at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/30/index.html.
>>
>> Nick
>
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