New Go Server, with Ladder Tournament - Looking for Feedback

[Ravi]

I guess you can add FunNode to that list .. at least for now

[Ravi]

We've redesigned and recoded significant aspects of FunNode over the past couple weeks. If you visited over this time, you may have experienced some bugs - sorry about that.

In any case, we're up and running again. Come check it out -- http://www.funnode.com

[Ravi]

A few of you found a couple bugs with Go..

• - undo moves were resetting the board instead of undo-ing one move -- FIXED
  - kos were not being handled properly -- FIXED

Come check us out now http://www.funnode.com/games/go

[Ravi]

We are proud to introduce a new bot -- Fuego -- to FunNode. Furthermore, we believe there are no more bugs in the interface

[Worthless]

I played Fuego today, and at some point (around move 230), I was far ahead. It then apparently started playing at T19 repeatedly, even though no such point on the board exists. In effect, it was passing. I eventually (about twenty moves later) passed without completing the game, and it went to the scoring phase from there.

Is there perhaps a bug in interpreting Fuego's passes/resignations?

[daal]

I played Fuego today, and at some point (around move 230), I was far ahead. It then apparently started playing at T19 repeatedly, even though no such point on the board exists. In effect, it was passing. I eventually (about twenty moves later) passed without completing the game, and it went to the scoring phase from there.

Is there perhaps a bug in interpreting Fuego's passes/resignations?

Sounds like it thinks there is no "I" on the board. No wonder you were winning.

[Ravi]

Worthless - Thanks for the feedback .. Because fuego needs alot of the CPU/RAM resources to compute its moves, when it wasn't being allocated enough resources, it would simply fail at computing the move and pass (i.e., [T, 19]). So, we have now doubled our resources and fuego no longer passes prematurely. Also, we've set the interface to show "pass", instead of "[T, 19]".

daal .. yes, we still have an "i" on the board

[Tommie]

The "I" (("I ") can be mistaken for an "j" (" J ") in many fonts and the expectations of many players (majority ?) for K10 = tengen, Q4 = hoshi an T = last line cannot be underestimated.

I cannot recall having ever seen a printed Go diagram with coordinates ...I-j-k-l...


I expect a problem for conversion into SGF4, resp. displaying same (the SGF-convention is on the net).

[snorri]

Because fuego needs alot of the CPU/RAM resources to compute its moves, when it wasn't being allocated enough resources, it would simply fail at computing the move and pass...

There's a difference between humans and computers. When we can't read, we don't pass. We just play moves that are worse than passing...

[Ravi]

Tommie: after much consideration, we have decided to remove "I" from the board.

snorri: in any case, we have fixed the bug where the AI was passing.

[EdLee]

- (Done) Option to enlarge the board to full-screen (not the zoom-in feature in browser)

Hi Ravi, this is not Done at all. FunNode is currently not full-screen (on a 1440x900 display), not even close:

Not_Full_Screen.jpg (157.81 KiB) Viewed 13941 times

This is almost full-screen -- gIgo, on a 1440x900 display -- I want to hide the menu bar completely, too:

gIgo_Full_Screen.jpg (155.95 KiB) Viewed 13940 times

- (Considering) Option to toggle co-ordinates

This is a must.

Thanks, and good luck!

[Ravi]

EdLee: We've added coordinates-toggling now. Simply click on the coordinates to hide/show them.

We have also added Go Forums! http://www.funnode.com/forums

[Ravi]

- fixed a nagging memory leak -- will make the gameplay much faster and/or smoother
- added private matches -- useful for teaching

[Gohst]

Hi Ravi --

I wish you all the best with your server. Tonight, I cannot connect with IE (10)... it just times out, but Google Chrome works just fine.

[Ravi]

Thank you very much Gohst for the well wishes

Please do try again now .. there was an odd bug that was fixed yesterday. It's working fine on IE11 atm. Please let me know if you have any other issues as well.