Life In 19x19

Is it possible to assess visits/s on a Mac and what value does one get on what Mac model? (Just curios. I am a Windows "fan".)

This is tricky, because KaTrain – as far as I know – prunes its search and therefore does 'more with less'. IIRC, the author said that this is why he doesn't have the ...

If having Windows as the operating system is not a requirement, a Mac mini is easy to recommend. For 750€ you get a silent computer that is more than powerful enough for daily use and running go AI (note: you need to buy a screen and peripherals separately). It may not be quite as fast as a RTX4000 ...

Having thought a bit more about these things, I wonder: what would you suggest as value calculation independent from the environment / situational factors?

Possibility 1:

Assumption of all moves of Black's and White's alternating sequences to have the same gain. Such occurs in a simple gote ...

I'll just drop this here. Hopefully this is enough to show why abstract value calculations should have nothing to do with situational factors such as who is ko master.

Area scoring, black is ko master, the marked stones are connected to a living black group, no dame left elsewhere.

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The Nordic Go Dojo will sponsor a toroidal go tournament on December 27, at 7–10 pm EET (Helsinki time). The tournament will be played on the Variant Go Server .

The two finalists of the tournament will receive NGD vouchers of €40 and €20, which can be used for participation in our online league ...

In the ko in C if black connects, she has one point in L13, one point in M12. If white K14, white L13, then black answers M12, then white connects. Black has no point, white has one point and two prisoners. The difference is 5, and the tally is 1 + 2 = 3 (the l13-m12 exchange doesn't count).
Thus ...

I featured 'pure go' in an NGD post back in May . The concept was quite familiar among Japanese professional players even before Ō Meien made it into a sellable product.

I haven't had many opportunities to teach go to beginners recently, but from what little I have seen it seems like a vastly ...

Now, we have a lot of data of strong human players not using AI to cheat, going back before AlphaGo. In addition, thanks to the Elf team and GoGoD, we have a lot of data of differences between human play back then and modern bot play. Yes, humans are learning a lot from the bots, and will continue ...

May I strongly suggest that you add an empirical researcher to your team? Without empirical validation it is easy to go astray. :)
I've been wanting to blind-test my model for a long time, and that is why I recently made the initial test with 5 AI v. AI games, 5 human v. human games, and 10 ...

a player's average effect in a single game does not make it possible to accurately estimate their playing skill
At the same time, the paper describes the intention of analysing a player's skill (but so far should only speak of a "model of it") from just one game. His demonstrated, what the paper ...

Apparently, the scoremean is defined as a mean over all visited scores (at the leaves, I suppose) during a Monte-Carlo search. When correct subsequent play approaches a leaf, the scoremean can converge to strong human score prediction. So far so good. However, in the general case, which includes ...

Since you have worked for a long time on your tool, I wonder whether you do so as part of some task at university or is it purely your hobby?
At this point, the answer is kind of 'both'. Personally I am not affiliated with any university, but the Associate Professor I am collaborating with is (you ...

However, the process should be improved as follows:

- Human arbiters should have at least the same power as software in step (1), that is, also have the possibility to suggest initially suspicious games.
This is exactly how the process works. We generate graphs only to games that are brought to ...

My apologies, it has been some time since I last checked L19.

For anybody who missed my announcement on nordicgodojo.eu (apparently everyone), this article describes the used anti-cheating tools to a degree. For now, there is no exact description mainly because the tools are still a work in ...

https://www.nordicgodojo.eu/media/pixelgo/pixelgotournament-poster.jpg

The NGD is sponsoring a 'Pixel Go Tournament', basically a goofy variant of 9x9 go, on October 31, played on the Variant Go Server . The tournament is free for all to participate in, and has NGD gift vouchers for the top two ...