Life In 19x19

If you're wedded to leela-zero and lizzie I can't help you. If you're just interested in getting some AI going, I had fairly quick success with katrain (https://github.com/sanderland/katrain). I ended up having to build katago from source on an Ubuntu system, but that was without difficulty.

Good ...

I have a new PC, bought for the purpose of running KataGo.
The CPU is an i7-14700K and the GPU is a GeForce RTX 4060.
Once again, my son built the PC and we installed Debian 12 together.
(I was previously stuck on Debian 11.) Video output goes
through the GPU and everything seems to be working.

The ...

I also know Matthew a bit, having been a regular at the Leamington Go Club
for 10 years, until poor health intervened this year.

There is no sign that he is annoyed with the BGA: he still does occasional
commentaries on British Championship games. He is a life-time member of
the BGA, so there are ...

I have some doubts about the following well-intentioned advice.
You may actually find it quicker to put a second drive into your computer, install Linux and build katago from scratch there. You'll likely be able to find more support if you're desperate for TensorRT.
It feels timely to say that ...

Robert,

Thanks for your detailed posts on these topics. My small comment is that Lizzie
may also be buggy, at least on my system. If you have time, please run the following
test.

1. Load a game into Lizzie for analysis by KataGo.
2. Select a small number of visits, for example 50, by typing a50.
3 ...

I'll bite. The answers begin with a # character. Please assume IDC where
there is no answer. And I have added some topics at the end that interest me
as a very part-time go-writer.

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I'm interested in creating a style guide for Go material, so I'd like to
collect opinions. I'd be ...

I also have some questions about KaTrain. KaTrain and KataGo were installed using Debian Linux,
and the pip3 installation method.

I tried to upload a screen shot as a PNG or JPEG file, but both attempts failed.

1. What do the red triangles and dots do? There is a dotted triangle at the
bottom ...

Robert,

I run KataGo under Linux, but there may be some useful information for you.

You asked about the many files called katago.exe on your system. Under Linux.
one can simply type "./katago version" and the program will tell you its version number.
You may need to type "katago.exe version" under ...

Sin currently holds NINE titles, including FOUR international ones... So, are we lager louts for preferring to talk about Japan when all the bubbles are sparkling in Korea?
It's only a drop in the bucket, but Baduk Doctor posted an English-language review of a game between Shin Jinseo (his ...

On a related question, not every notebook has all navigation keys as dedicated keys. When using go AI software, which navigation keys are needed frequently? Arrows keys? Pos1 and End? PageUp and PageDown? Is a mouse needed or will any touchpad do?

There are two different phases in my use of ...

This is a report from a weak player about learning from AI. Apologies for the
length and for mainly talking to myself. I have White in all the examples.

KataGo Cannot Cure Cognitive Collapse
I recently won 5 club games in a row, and thought that study with AI was
finally bearing fruit. Pride ...

Is there a certain threshold of variations the AI needs...
On my box, one can press 'a' on the keyboard and then tell Lizzie how many visits
to use for each move. The programs will then do as many visits as you tell them to.
If your GPU is relatively slow, the process will take relatively longer ...

I have used Lizzie and KataGo as suggested at the top of this thread.
The resulting SGF file is further processed to convert the output from KataGo
into human-readable comments and annotations. You still have to supply your own
insight, but it is sometimes possible to see the merit in KataGo's ...

Hi bernds, thanks for all the explanations and help.

I have learnt more about the differences in CPU usage between Lizzie and q5Go
when running the same analysis. The attachment shows the greater CPU usage by
Lizzie (on the left) compared to q5Go (on the right). Running the Linux "top"
utility ...

Enough with the mystification already.
Zero is not a number. It's a concept like infinity.
Are not all numbers concepts? Now define "concept".

God made the integers; all else is the work of man - Leopold Kronecker
There are zero live African elephants in the room with me at the moment. This is ...