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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Man vs Machine - The tromp bet


 I bet many KGS players know of this bet from last year. Now it has been renewed and we will see how much the computer can do now. Below the gogameguro article and Darren's message on the bet.

Tromp bet: January 13, 8pm US Eastern Time on KGS, the contender Zen is sporting a dual 6-core Xeon X5680 (overclocked to 4.2Ghz) so let us see how far the computer can go.


Many of you followed the Go Bet event in London at the end of 2010,
where John Tromp triumphed and I was forced to hand over the $1000. Now
it is time to see if the bots have improved in the past 12
months, as John will play another match with a computer program.

 When: During January 2012 (exactly when will be announced soon)
 Where: On KGS
 Format: Best-of-5 (first to three wins)
 Rules: Chinese, 7.5pt komi
 Time: 90 minutes each, with byo-yomi of 25 stones per 10 minutes
 Hardware: (to be announced)

Yamato, the author of Zen, was reluctant to take part a year ago, unsure
of the outcome. Well, this year he has agreed to take part. A sign the
machines have improved... or just over-confidence?

Darren

P.S. The match is online this time, and there is no wager, so my only
involvement is the publicity :-)


-- 
Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer


http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2012-January/004527.html


http://gogameguru.com/man-machine-showdown-board-game-go/

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