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(Message started by: Fritzlein on Oct 29^th, 2005, 7:16pm)

Title: 2005 Gifu Computer Go Championships
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 29^th, 2005, 7:16pm

on 10/29/05 at 15:26:03, omar wrote:

BTW; the computer Go championship is coming up soon, please wish David good luck.

http://www.computer-go.jp/gifu2005/English/

Starting soon? It looks like the games were already underway when you posted. Good luck, David!

I didn't know about this tournament, but I'm pleased to hear about it, because I selfishly imagine that it explains David's absence from Arimaa. After he wins in Japan, he may have time to turn his considerable talents back to improving Bomb.

Title: Re: 2005 Gifu Computer Go Championships
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 31^st, 2005, 1:24pm

It looks like Many Faces of Go took 2nd place out of the 18 entrants, for a prize of 200,000 yen. Congratulations, David! My currency converter says that's $1719 at today's rates. I hope you didn't have to fly to Japan to collect it.

Title: Re: 2005 Gifu Computer Go Championships
Post by fotland on Jan 23^rd, 2006, 1:18am

Thanks.

I did fly to Japan to participate in the tournament, so I pretty much broke even with the prize money, but I enjoyed the trip and the contest.

Arimaa has been pretty low priority for me last year. I felt that I only had a chance to win the human-computer competition in the first year, before people figured out strategy.

If Bomb loses the computer-computer competition I'll probably work on it more :)

David

Title: Re: 2005 Gifu Computer Go Championships
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 28^th, 2006, 9:35pm

on 01/23/06 at 01:18:35, fotland wrote:

If Bomb loses the computer-computer competition I'll probably work on it more :)

I miss you, so I'm really, really hoping Bomb doesn't win again in 2007...