8th Computer Olympiad 2003

Date: November 23-27, 2003

Place: Graz, Austria

Operator: Erik van der Werf

Version: GNU Go 3.5.2olympiad (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gnugo/gnugo-3.5.2olympiad.tar.gz)

Results:

No Name #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11
1 GNU Go 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 GoAhead 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
3 Dariush 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1
4 Go Intellect 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
5 IndiGo 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1
6 NeuroGo 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1
7 Aya 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0
8 Jimmy 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
9 Explorer 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
10 SmartGo 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
11 GoLois 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Game records can be found in regression/games/olympiad2003.

External link: http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/Olympiad2003/results/go1919/go1999.htm

Excerpts from the mailing list:

From: Gunnar Farneback
To: gnugo-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [gnugo-devel] GNU Go in the Computer Olympiad
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:09:38 +0100

GNU Go will be entering the Computer Olympiad, taking place November
23-27, thanks to the organizers generously allowing us to participate
although nobody from the team will be present. GNU Go will be operated
by Erik van der Werf on a very fast (3 GHz!) Linux laptop.

I have provided him with GNU Go 3.5.2olympiad which is GNU Go 3.5.2
patched with my workaround patch gunnar_5_3.5 (Paul's proper patch
weren't available at that time) and the version name changed. I have
also instructed him to use the options (running through CGoban)

--quiet --level 12 --chinese-rules -o game_record.sgf

I don't think --chinese-rules has much actual effect on the play but
since the tournament uses Chinese rules it shouldn't hurt.

Regarding the choice of level the time allowance is 50 minutes, no
overtime. On such a fast computer I feel the default level would run
ridiculously fast. Since I don't really trust our autolevel code (has
it ever been properly tested?) I prefer to use a fixed level. Level 12
is maybe still too conservative but should at least be fairly safe.
Any opinions about this?

Information about the Computer Olympiad can be found at

http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2003/

/Gunnar
From: Gunnar Farneback
To: GNU Go development <gnugo-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [gnugo-devel] GNU Go in the Computer Olympiad 
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:51:26 +0100

I wrote:
> GNU Go will be entering the Computer Olympiad, taking place November
> 23-27, thanks to the organizers generously allowing us to participate
> although nobody from the team will be present. GNU Go will be operated
> by Erik van der Werf on a very fast (3 GHz!) Linux laptop.

GNU Go won all its games!

                        Time spent (minutes, seconds)
opponent       margin   GNU Go    opponent
Aya            239.5    21.05     43.52
Explorer        75.5     8.00      7.26
Dariush         12.5     ?         ?
GoAhead         56.5     ?         ?
Indigo          time     5.47     50.00
Jimmy          150.5     9.20      2.14
Neurogo        248.5    13.30     39.12
Go Intellect   149.5(*) 12.57     16.44
GoLois         187.5     7.58      9.11
SmartGo         51.5     9.33     44.48

(*) The official result is resign, although the game was finished.

Game records are available in CVS, regression/games/olympiad2003/*.sgf

I don't have the full tournament results yet.

/Gunnar