Re: [gnugo-devel] Report 2 from the Computer Olympiad

[Gunnar Farneback]

Inge wrote:
> Here is the second report from the Computer Olympiad.  I will be brief
> here, because you can see the results on the olympiads web site.

Quick summary from the web site:
Losing all games but one (on 9x9) against Go4++.
Doing 50% against Go Intellect.
Winning all games against Star of DongHwa, Ether, and Magog.

> I have had difficulties getting to a network-attached computer
> because there are only 3 of those here and they have been occupied
> by others all the time.

Ouch. One would have thought a University could do better than that.

> There has been some discussions about excluding Ether from the
> tournament because the author is not here and aside from that it plays
> really bad and also makes a number of illegal moves.  If this will be
> the case, the tournament will be converted to use 2 double rounds in
> stead of one.  This means that we will play two more games against
> Go4++, Go Intellect and Star of Donghwa each.  The decision will be
> tomorrow.

Games against very weak opponents may be amusing to watch occasionally
but it would clearly be a win to get another six games against more
interesting programs.

I saw something on the web pages about Go4++ protesting a result
against Star of DongHwa. What was going on there?

> I will try to send the games in my next mail, but I will try to do it
> from the computer here.  I hope that Dan or Gunnar can put them up on
> the CVS.

Absolutely. I'll add them as soon as I get them.

/Gunnar