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I wonder: should I use byo yomi for time keeping or initial time + incremental (like chess does)?
For now I've implemented byo yomi but I noticed that gnugo does not like that.

Hi, In chess we have "perft": count the number of valid moves upto a certain depth. It is used to validate the move-generator. I googled for it, but they're not known for Go programs? My program outputs the following for a board-size of 9: 1: 81 (81000.0 moves per second) 2: 6480 (925714.3...

Ok, I've added the following:

* seed board with random

* seed board with a board-layout from a random sgf in a sub-directory

* bugfixes

* re-licensed under the more liberal MIT license

Hi, I wrote a tournament manager for Go (GTP) programs ( https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/badank ). It works pretty well but I noticed that when running certain programs, it has only 25% unique games. E.g. 13090 games played, only 2998 unique sgf-files. In chess one uses an opening book to preve...

Hi Flok, Here are in general the techniques I use to ensure quality of my C++ software: googletest for unit testing: https://github.com/google/googletest gcov to measure test coverage: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html run tests with sanitizers: https://github.com/google/sanitizers memor...

Hi, Currently, when I've placed a stone, I regenerate the possible chains with for each chain a list of its liberties (I use that liberties-list to see if it is dead or not). After that, I do an assert if the all chains of the color that just placed the stone, if they all have 1 or more liberties. W...

Archive of old mailing list: https://www.mail-archive.com/computer-go@computer-go.org/maillist.html GTP documentation http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/ CGOS http://www.yss-aya.com/cgos/ KGS GTP client: http://www.gokgs.com/download.jsp UEC Cup http://entcog.c.ooco.jp/entcog/new_uec/en/ Invite ...

The 1.5.2 release is online: https://github.com/Remi-Coulom/gogui Don't use Quaqua anymore, which should fix some crashes on macOS (issue #18). Support for large boards up to 52x52. Support for games with moving pieces such as chess or ataxx Drag-and-drop of sgf files (thanks to @zakki) Fix wrong p...

@zaki: any idea why my program 'DellaBaduckf6497eb' on cgos 9x9 is not matched against stop-0.9? It played 209 games sofar and none of them were against stop.

Rémi Coulom wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 5:56 pm

flok wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 5:10 pmEventually I'll move onto mcts and friends

Well, the idea can be useful in an alpha-beta search as well. If you give a bonus to a group with eyes, your search will work better.

Yes. Currently I have for eval the end-score (including komi).