[computer-go] 2007 Cotsen Open wants your program to enter

[David Doshay]

SlugGo entered the first year as a 9 kyu and won 1 game. One other game
was clearly "won" on the board (more than 100 points) but the opponent
was clever enough to start playing very complicated moves that I  
could see
were not going to work, but took SlugGo a long time to reply to, and
SlugGo lost on time. After that we put in time management code.

The second year I made a silly mistake, and the graphical front end  
(GoBan)
was mistakenly set to "announce atari." The announcement was something
that the multi-processor message passing code did not understand, so
SlugGo lost all games by crashing in response to the first atari of  
the game.
I figured this out minutes after the last game. SlugGo had been  
entered as
a 10 kyu the second year. I felt horrible accepting the cash prize  
for best
program, but it did help offset the $1250 cost of a handicap van that  
I had
to rent to transport the cluster to Los Angeles.

The Cotsen open is 5 games. I think the bracket ran from 8 to 12 kyu. I
did not do anything to narrow my guess of the rating.

I will look for the games.

Cheers,
David



On 20, Sep 2007, at 10:19 AM, Mark Schreiber wrote:

> On Thu Sep 13 16:14:36 PDT 2007, David Doshay wrote:
>
>> SlugGo won the award for "Best Computer Program"
>> both of the last 2 years
>
> David, thanks for telling us about the Cotsen Open.
> Where can I find more about SlugGo's games at the Cotsen Open?
> How many games were played? What were the scores? What were the  
> ratings of
> the opponents? Did you compute a performance rating for SlugGo?
> Mark Schreiber
>
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