Re: [gnugo-devel] level of play

[david doshay]

On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 05:13  PM, Gunnar Farneback wrote:

> David wrote:
> > We will be happy to share all records and our
> > code, but would prefer to make a few more improvements first. If you
> > really want to see it sooner we can do that too..
> Some game record would be a good teaser.

OK, I will do that on Monday.
> How fast is it playing? If it's not too slow I would strongly
> recommend playing with it on a server.

The way the play is spread over the cluster, time to move should be
linear in the look-ahead depth, plus 1 (to select the paths) plus a very
little bit more. Using look-ahead depths of 8 and 16 were arbitrary.
We need to play enough games to find the tradeoff between strength
and time.
> Does GMP or any other means of communication besides GUI come
> with the retail version of Many Faces?

Perhaps I jumped to a conclusion there. I assumed that i would be able
to connect a laptop to the cluster and let them run at night.
> Most of the interesting testing against other programs (that has been
> reported) has been done by max-d. Check the list archive for his
> postings. If I remember correctly these test have been against Go++,
> Winhonte, and Handtalk.

I also own Handtalk, so if easier I could use it.

Cheers,
David