Re: [gnugo-devel] address@hidden: computer-go: 13x13 CGoTournament 2002-03 (12)]

[Arend Bayer]

Gunnar wrote:

> Stefan Mertin wrote:
> > Most surprising is the newer version 3.2 of GnuGo,
> > which I am very happy to have included now:
> > but with level=10 (standard) the results were nearly the same
> > as with version 3.0 - so I rised the playing level to 15 for this program
> > (computing time mostly was still less than 30 min. per game)
> > and the success is incredible: GnuGo is now to be found among
> > the worlds strongest Go programs  -
> > and it's free! Big felicitations for this great work!
>
> Increasing the level affects a lot of depth parameters. It would be
> interesting to know which of those pay off best.

I think it also shows that it would be worth some effort to write a
good timing control. I.e. one which would make GNU Go use most of the
allowed time in a Computer Go Tournament, but still be reliable in never
running out of time. Not sure how good --autolevel is in this respect.

(I assume GNU Go's users would also very much appreciate this feature
once it's automatically triggered from their client via gtp.)

Arend