[computer-go] MoGo, and computer Go events

[Nick Wedd]

More than a week ago, Sylvain Gelly <sylvain.gelly at m4x.org> wrote

>I am pleased to announce a binary release of current version of MoGo.
>It is specially designed for players but of course it may be
>interesting for some of you as a benchmark.
>You download it and see the instructions there:
>http://www.lri.fr/~gelly/MoGo.htm

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>I would also take this occasion to say "goodbye" to you all, and thank
>you for all the discussions. I now finished (and almost defended :))
>my PhD, and my work on MoGo is finished. So it is very likely that I
>will not make any further contribution to MoGo. I would like to say
>that I spent a very good year in the computer Go community, with of course a
>warm special thank to Yizao. Of course, I will follow the future
>discussions on this list with pleasure.

I would like to thank Sylvain Gelly and the rest of the MoGo team for 
creating such a strong program, and one which has added such interest to 
the monthly bot tournaments on KGS.

I hope that, one way or another, MoGo will continue to compete in these 
events.  I do not know what the team's plans are.  If development of 
MoGo is to continue (though no longer under Sylvain's leadership), I 
hope the developers will continue to enter it for these events.  If 
development is to be frozen, or for some reason not made public, then I 
would like to see MoGo in its current state continue to compete in these 
events as a benchmark.  Its source code has been released, and there is 
(I understand) a Windows executable available, so this should not be a 
problem.  But it would be good to see someone volunteer for the 
responsibility of running MoGoBot in these events, in the Formal 
division or in both divisions.

Nick
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Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk