Zen wins UEC Cup

Game just finished. It was a complicated game and Crazy Stone may have been better at some stage. However it misjudged a semeai and lost.

Congratulations to Team DeepZen!

   Martin

Remi Coulom and Hideki Kato during the final game

Semifinal results

Zen beat Aya
Crazy Stone beat HiraBot

Like last year, the final is Crazy Stone against Zen.

Michael Redmond 9 Dan pro and Osawa Narumi 4 Dan pro explain how to play the nine star point opening, while commenting on the game between Zen (Black) and Aya (White)

Rounds 1 and 2 results

Round 1: (winner first)
Crazy Stone - ballade
Nomitan - storm
Hirabot - Katsunari
caren - MP-Fuego
Aya - Kinoigo
LeafQuest - milago
GOGATAKI-MC_ark
Zen - Qinoa Igo

Round 2: (winner first)
Crazy Stone - Nomitan (very good game, Nomitan leading near the end)
HiraBot - caren
Aya - LeafQuest
Zen - GOGATAKI

Semifinals (starting soon, Michael Redmond comments)
Zen - Aya
Crazy Stone - HiraBot

Round 1

This was the first game of the knockout finals against Caren. Disaster strikes. MP-Fuego plays on Tsubame, a Japanese supercomputer, because Kazuki wants more time to test MP-Fuego with 2048 cores on Hungabee.

The number of nodes per second is much slower on Tsubame than normal. During the game it gets worse. Still it looks like we might make it, barely. But in the late endgame, the program reduces to a crawl, then dies. We lose on time.

Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji, from Meguro, Tokyo

Getting ready

Left: Remi Coulom (Crazy Stone), Hiroshi Yamashita (Aya), Kazuki Yoshizoe (MP-Fuego)

Some games from Day 1; preview of day 2

Just getting ready for the final day. I put a selection of some games from the first day on my web pages. The weather in Chofu is bright and sunny. It is Sunday morning and the streets are very quiet. The games will start at 10am, about 80 minutes from now. Michael Redmond, professional 9 Dan, will do game commentaries. For the second day, the tournament site is rearranged to have the computer desks all on one side, and the other side will have a projector showing a selection of games in progress, a big demo board for the professional, and rows of seats for the spectators.

I brought my camera but unfortunately I forgot the little card reader so I cannot upload the pictures. I will see if I can borrow or buy one today.

Today will be just four rounds, knockout style. However, all programs will play all rounds, and all places from 1-16 will be determined. The first game decides whether a program is in places 1-8 or 9-16, and so on.