This tournament is the replacement of UEC Cup
Japanese rule, 30 minutes main time per player, no byoyomi.
300,000, 150,000, 50,000 yen for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place
List of participant programs
AQ / Yu Yamaguchi (Japan)
Kifuwarabe / Satoshi Takahashi (Japan)
MARU / Atsushi Takeda (Japan)
Deep_ark / HEROZ IGO team (Japan)
otabot / Team Data Kernel (German)
akira / Junya Watanabe (Japan)
Abacus / Tsinghua Univ. (China)
DolBaram / Lim Jaebum (Korea)
ballade / Ichiro Uziie (Japan)
nlp / Kenji Iwai (Japan)
QinoaIgo / Qinoa (Japan)
Rayn / Rayn × Tripleize AI R & D Team (Japan)
Mayoigo / Masaki Murayama (Japan)
Fine Art / Tencent AI Lab (China)
Tianrang / Tianrang (China)
Kaminoitte / 神乎碁技 (USA)
Kugutsu / Tokumoto (Japan)
DeepZenGo / DeepZenGo Project (Japan)
Aya / Hiroshi Yamashita (Japan)
Katsunari / Shinichi Sei (Japan)
This competition consists of preliminary matches and final tournament.
Preliminary matches are held on the first day joined by all programs to choose 16 teams that proceed to the final tournament held on the second day. An anomalistic Swiss style will be used for the preliminary-game matching up to the sixth game, and the Swiss style for the seventh game (final match).
If the number of programs participating to the preliminary games is odd, GNU_Go will be added.
To decide the ranking of the preliminary games, after draws being converted to 0.5 wins and 0.5 losses, the following conditions are applied in the order of listing.
Competitors with the higher number of wins are ranked higher.
Competitors with the higher score of Solkoff (the total number of wins of all the opponents) are ranked higher.
Competitors with the higher score of SB (the total number of wins of opponents they have defeated) are ranked higher.
As for the competitors in the same rank based on (1) to (3), those with higher scores of DB (the number of wins minus the number of losses) are ranked higher.
Decided by lot.
The final tournament is conducted as shown in the tournament chart in accordance with the order of the preliminary-match ranking, and will decide the first to sixteenth competitors.
Schedule (in Japan Time Zone)
December 9th 2017
09:00Preliminary league to choose 16 teams going up to the tournament for the second day.
09:10Start reception
09:20Participants' meeting time
09:30Opening ceremony
09:501st round
10:502nd round
11:50Lunch break
13:003rd round
14:004th round
15:005th round
16:006th round
17:007th round
18:00Accolade
December 10th 2017
09:30Final tournament for 16 teams.
09:40Start reception
10:00The first matches
11:00The second matches
12:00Lunch break
13:30The semmifinal matches
14:30The final match
16:00Closing ceremony
Uberdude wrote:So for which bot was 'define' a test account?
My instinct says it's the latest FineArt version that beat 99-1 matches in Fox. DeepZenGo might send either 15.5 or 15.7 from its testing behavior in CGOS.
Uberdude wrote:So for which bot was 'define' a test account?
My instinct says it's the latest FineArt version that beat 99-1 matches in Fox. DeepZenGo might send either 15.5 or 15.7 from its testing behavior in CGOS.
Do you have any of those game records (other than Ke Jie win one)? Define has quite a distinctive style, e.g. early 3-3s, come into mini-Chinese immediately, always take corner after attach and hane against 4-4 approach and knight move. Did FineArt on Fox do this?
Edit: found it myself in zip here viewtopic.php?p=225397#p225397
Edit 2: quickly looked at a few games of that FineArt, doesn't seem like define.
Apparently FineArt lost a game to weak bot Maru because it kept filling in its territory at the end despite being Japanese rules. I do find it funny how it can play moves that spank top professionals but cannot pass as well as a 25 kyu. A nice example of so-called artificial intelligences doing absurdly dumb things when outside their expected parameters.
Prelim results:
FineArt beat DolBaram
FA beat Abacus
Abacus beat Rayn (funny damezumari ko threat in double ko)
FA beat Rayn
FA beat Tianrang
FA beat Zen with big kill
Good play by FineArt. At move 74, Zen had evaluated position at 56% in its favor, while Leela says it's even. But after some moves in the upper right corner, FineArt gained influence and skilfully attacked Zen's big group.
I preferred black after the trade top side: FA's result is so clean (and top left corner to side became solid, I feel like white should have some skillful play to probe there are make some aji before black got so solid) whilst white's corner is full of bad aji. I wouldn't have found FA's sacrifice to get sente influence to support the attack, but that's exactly the kind of thing I thought black deserved out of the position.
Uberdude wrote:I preferred black after the trade top side: FA's result is so clean (and top left corner to side became solid, I feel like white should have some skillful play to probe there are make some aji before black got so solid) whilst white's corner is full of bad aji. I wouldn't have found FA's sacrifice to get sente influence to support the attack, but that's exactly the kind of thing I thought black deserved out of the position.
I like how B kept the territory under his large star shimari. It's ususally full of holes, but B made it solid. Perhaps that's where B got the lead, because those stones were so effective. And O14 looks so ugly having in mind weak W group on the left side.
Uberdude wrote:I preferred black after the trade top side: FA's result is so clean (and top left corner to side became solid, I feel like white should have some skillful play to probe there are make some aji before black got so solid) whilst white's corner is full of bad aji. I wouldn't have found FA's sacrifice to get sente influence to support the attack, but that's exactly the kind of thing I thought black deserved out of the position.
I like how B kept the territory under his large star shimari. It's ususally full of holes, but B made it solid. Perhaps that's where B got the lead, because those stones were so effective. And O14 looks so ugly having in mind weak W group on the left side.
As for me it was a clear gain for white. Just look at the beginning of the battle. White invaded and just killed black stones. Zen just lacking of computing power compared to FA and thats why it couldn't live. It definitely shouldn't be killed.
Uberdude wrote:I preferred black after the trade top side: FA's result is so clean (and top left corner to side became solid, I feel like white should have some skillful play to probe there are make some aji before black got so solid) whilst white's corner is full of bad aji. I wouldn't have found FA's sacrifice to get sente influence to support the attack, but that's exactly the kind of thing I thought black deserved out of the position.
I like how B kept the territory under his large star shimari. It's ususally full of holes, but B made it solid. Perhaps that's where B got the lead, because those stones were so effective. And O14 looks so ugly having in mind weak W group on the left side.
As for me it was a clear gain for white. Just look at the beginning of the battle. White invaded and just killed black stones. Zen just lacking of computing power compared to FA and thats why it couldn't live. It definitely shouldn't be killed.
Do you know what are time settings and hardware? Though Deep Zen team should be awere that competition is bringing it all in.
I guess there are no restriction on hardware. At least it never was in past. And I doubt that DeepZen team can compete with Tencent company on this. FineArt never published the hardware they are using.
