Life In 19x19

Hello pookpooi,

pookpooi wrote:Top programs will reach 9D in KGS with normal or
slow time setting before 2020.

A question out of curiosity:
Is KGS 9D assumed to be pro level?

Ingo.

... I don't know much about chess but my understanding is that current
chess engines would completely crush top pros in a straight-up match.
They tend to win even win with one hand tied behind their back (e.g.
no endgame or opening tables) while giving heavy odds like pawn and a move.


That ...

Hello Ruben,

nice to meet you again. We had played in a little 9x9
go tournament 3.5 years ago on Little Golem (and you
beat me).



>> * When will be the first time that a human pro loses a game against a
>> bot on 19x19, when the human took handicap?

6-7 years ahead. As soon as this is needed ...

As I expressed elsewhere , I have trouble understanding how MCTS could play at the level of top professionals. What's your take on that?

Two and also still one year ago several MCTS programmers
had expressed their opinions that MCTS would run against
some threshold rather soon. I - simply ...

Hello,

in this month, computer go has made several big steps:

* the wins of Zen on 19x19 against Takemiya Masaki (9p)
at 5 and 4 handicap stones

* the win of Pachi2 in the KGS bot tournament at slow time controlls

* the impressive performance of Zen13 in many free games on KGS ...

< Post deleted because it qotes the above post and because it continues a political discussion. -JB >

If you check any EGF AGM meeting you can see that we always have 2 groups: West Europe and East Europe...
And there is a big list of countries who vote against
ANY proposals from the Russian Go Federation.
Just because they hate russians.


I cannot imagine such a bad thing to be true.

But I ...

Hello Vesa,


We needed 220-250 clocks. We got 50 Excaliburs from the Finnish go clubs. Do the math.

One more thing: I don't like the constant emphasis that "at least the top boards should have better clocks". Are the top players somehow less capable of handling the go timers than the rest of the ...

... I would love to see a photo of the board at the time of the timeout. I know that the board state should not influence the ruling, but it certainly influences my opinion about the players.

I have tried a lot to get sgf of the game or at least a snapshot
of the crucial position. No success. (I ...

One thing that struck as being quite silly is Dinerstein complaint that a French referee cannot judgge impartially about a Dutchman as their countries are "too close together" ...
It almost feels like he insinuates that Western Europeans would stand with Western Europeans and Eastern Europeans with ...

Many thanks to Robert Jasiek, Matti Siivola, Luc Vannier
for putting such an amount of energy in this case.

Ingo Althofer.

hyperpape wrote:This was posted by Breakfast (http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1423)under the insei league forum, but many members may not read that forum.

Thx for the info.
Your link was slightly wrong. The correct one is
http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=1461

Ingo.

Hello Bantari,

Please, Ingo, or whatever your real name is


My handle is my name from real life (except for o-Umlaut).
Now, I have also given the address of my website
in my profile here.


I will try to answer your questions this time, out of politeness,


Thanks.


but I do not see why do ...

One question: You claim to have account "Bantari" on KGS.
This is correct.

But there is no user with this name (and games) in the current list.


Is this a question?

Not exactly. Here comes the corresponding question:
How do your claim and the non-existence of "Bantari"
in the KGS archives ...

Hello,

I would like to get sgf of the game
Dinershteyn vs van Zeijst.

Can someone help me with this?

Especially, I am interested in the position where
the accident with the clock happened, and also in
the final position (where W+27.5 was counted).

If sgf is not available, perhaps someone has at ...