Re: [gnugo-devel] 3.4 vs 3.6 against MFG

[David G Doshay]

On 7, Mar 2005, at 4:32 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> I wonder if your copy of Many Faces is somehow
> broke. For example, look at move 104 in the last game,
> throwing away the corner. (B still has a chance to
> live at move 110.)
>
> Yes, GNU Go sometimes makes moves that are just as
> bad as this when the owl code misfires. But on the
> whole this B doesn't seem to play as positively as
> usual from Many Faces. It seems to have a different
> style than I expect. Does it have a version number?

11.0

On 7, Mar 2005, at 5:04 PM, Douglas Ridgway wrote:
> Very interesting! Do you have any data on H0 with GNU Go playing 
> white? I
> seem to recall that it did worse with white than black.

I guess I could run another set of games like that, but no, we
do not have that now.
> And are you by any chance using the fuseki db patches I posted back in
> November / December? It's not been added, I believe due to concerns 
> about
> how much disk space it will occupy, but the additional variability 
> should
> be particularly important for running lots of games for testing and
> statistics. For me, this was in fact the main point of the new db.

GNU Go was just the release version 3.6 with no patches.


Cheers,
David