[computer-go] Congratulations to LeelaBot2 and to CzechBot

[Aloril]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 09:59 -0400, Jason House wrote:
>   Did you know that weakbot50k and idiotbot don't actually handle the
> game end at all?  Once both players pass, they switch to using gnu go.

Source code for weakbot50k and idiotbot is at
http://londerings.sourceforge.net/go/kgs/ .
This was running in last tournament and I think almost all other
tournaments too.

As far as I remember and now see looking at code its 100% python code
and doesn't use any external programs for *anything*.
It doesn't need to, removing dead stones in 'unconditionally' decided
game is reasonably simple for most of time.

I should probably update weakbot50k to use more recent python code which
is faster, it lost on time quite often in last tournament.


About losing on time against senseless moves: If simplebot lost this way
completely won game I would consider it as bug in simplebot.

PS.
You might be confusing GnuGo1pt2, GnuGo2, LibertyBot, DrunkenGnu and
similar bots with WeakBot50k and IdiotBot: those older GNU Go:s use
recent GNU Go for cleanup because they either don't have code for it or
would handle it wrong.

Also WeakBot50k at rated games in KGS uses C code from GNU Go for speed
reasons and move generation logic ported and improved from python
version. Resign code in all bots which plays random games also uses C
code.