HouseBot came 7th in the January 2007 KGS bot tournament
Posted by Urban Hafner
Today was the January 2007 KGS bot tournament and version 0.5 of HouseBot managed to get on the 7th of 10 places. What’s even more noteworthy is that it managed to beat version 0.4 which is a first. That’s probably due to the improved search (a Transposition Table was introduced) and due to some minor enhancements in Life & Death analysis (the first step beyond Benson).
The next goal will be to beat 0.4 consistently and retire it completely. I hope this will be possible until next months tournament.
How strong is this bot right now?
I don’t know right now. We don’t have the resources to run it on KGS or any other server for a long time (though this might change soon). But it’s pretty weak. Even I can beat it easily and I’m not good at Go (27kyu at dragongoserver.net).
This is probably because this is an open source project all (three) developers can’t put that much time in the project. But we make some more progress these last months.
Thanks for your interest. Any you are welcome to ask any questions about the projects (preferably on our mailing list at housebot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, but private is OK, too).