[computer-go] Congratulations to LeelaBot2 and to CzechBot

[Jason House]

On May 7, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Aloril <aloril at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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.

Sorry. I didn't mean to misrepresent your bots.



> 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.

After seeing that list, I'm not embarassed about mixing up your bots :)