[computer-go] Congratulations to valkyria, and to GNU Go!

Olivier Teytaud Olivier.Teytaud at lri.fr
Mon Jan 7 23:35:08 PST 2008


>> The event was notable for unjustified resignations.
>
> Seems strange so many bots had resignation trouble.  Looks like beta
> code.  Probably in response to the "Please have your bot resign, for
> your own good" thread?

For mogo, this is a bug in the parallel version of the pondering.

We do all the tests without
pondering because if gives a more accurate measure of speed-up
(for parallelization), and we had not seen before the tournament that 
"pondering+parallelization=bug" in our code.

Sorry for that.


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