Life In 19x19

Are there freestyle go tournaments? A freestyle tournament is where moves are made by either humans, computers or humans consulting computers. I think at some point the computer will be so much stronger that the human contribution will be insignificant. The human will be a distraction for the ...

Who is stronger, KataGo or Yilego?
KataGo is number one on Go AI Ratings. See github.com/breakwa11/GoAIRatings
Yilego won the UEC Computer Go Cup. See hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012620/cgf2021/result2021.html
Yilego won the Gangwon Province World AI Baduk Championship. See ai.baduk.or.kr/ENG/table ...

Be careful what you wish for. Today all chess analysis is done by computer. Computers analyze chess positions faster, deeper and with less mistakes. The computer can analyze in a few minutes what a team of chess players can do in weeks. The world chess champions prepare by watching what the computer ...

AlphaGo has been gaining 1 stone a month according to Deepmind.
Source? I've not heard anything from DeepMind about progress in the last few months (just release of commentaries).
I think that he misquote from this
http://i.imgur.com/DUcWkhl.png
Correct pookpooi. I meant to say ...

First, I want to see Zen play Ke Jie. AlphaGo has been gaining 1 stone a month according to Deepmind. I think Alphago is too strong for Zen. After Zen beats Ke Jie then Zen should play Alphago.

Krama wrote:Why is zen not playing on KGS anymore?

Why should Zen play on KGS? Zen is already number 1 on KGS. Zen should play stronger players. Which servers have stronger players? Can Zen play in human tournaments?

Who was making the moves on the board for Zen?

The time lag from a 5 dan fast bot 0+9x:15 to a 5 dan slow bot 20+5x:30 was 6 months. Zen19D reached 5 dan in June 2011. Zen19S reached 5 dan in January 2012. If the improvement stays steady then a slow bot 20+5x:30 will reach 7 dan in September 2012. I think the steady progress of 1 dan in 1 year ...

Another milestone in computer Go. Zen19 is the first bot to hold a 3d rating on KGS for at least 20 games.
Zen is not just a 3 dan. KGS shows Zen to be half way between 3 dan and 4 dan.
Does KGS say what number Zen is in the list of all KGS players? I saw the 100th highest KGS player is 7 dan ...