[gnugo-devel] FW: 9x9 Bug in 3.2 ? GnuGo passes after first move

[Kevin 'Zaph' Burfitt]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin 'Zaph' Burfitt [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, 10 October 2002 9:53 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: 9x9 Bug in 3.2 ? GnuGo passes after first move
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Firstly let me point out that I'm a new Go player and I may be 
> totally mistaken here, but...
> 
> I've got the Windows binary of GNU Go 3.2 from Trevor Morris's 
> page (linked to from the GnuGo site)
> 
> I run it with the command line:
> gnugo --boardsize 9 --handicap 5
> 
> That gives me a board with 5 black pieces on it (in the correct 
> format I believe)
> 
> GnuGo makes the first move: C5
> I follow up with A8 (probably a terrible move)
> GnuGo passes, so I pass to see what will happen, and I win by +76 !
> 
> Surely that can't be right!
> 
> The funny part is that my move was generated by my first attempt 
> to write a computer-go program (not a good one, just to learn a 
> bit about it) - all it does is try to play legal moves at this 
> stage, and my first ever attempt beat GnuGo in one move :)   (if 
> I keep trying until GnuGo picks a different opening move then 
> GnuGo thrashes my program)
> 
> I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I have no idea what, the 
> parameters seem correct to me!
> Zaph
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> Kevin 'Zaph' Burfitt - Cthugha, StarLego, and more
> address@hidden  http://www.torps.com
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