HouseBot

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Housebot is my newborn bot on KGS. It's birth date is sometime in March 2005. For the moment, I'll just make this page sort of a change log with any relevant links.

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Overall status:

  • 0.5 branch can now think ahead and evaluate a final outcome, but the overall position evaluation is very poor.
  • The server for running on KGS has been lost. A replacement is on its way, but there appears to be a memory leak running on Windows...

HouseBot 0.5.x:

  • Based on a rewrite of the move value and move selection code to use object based values instead of a per-brain numerical value.
  • Large emphasis on using a score estimator fed with stone stability information. Both pieces of that (score estimator and stone stability) will continue to be enhanced throughout this development cycle
  • Still under development as of Nov 2006, but starting to make debuts on KGS

Housebot 0.4.x:

  • Added benson style unconditional life detection and support for accurately marking alive/dead stones at the end of the game.
  • Added handicap support (up to 9 stones)
  • Brain: Decrease Liberties - Value moves the reduce enemy chains to some number of liberties. (0.4.0 only valued atari plays higher...)
  • Brain: Protect Connection - Similar to protect_base but blocks enemy from passing between closely positioned friendly stones.

Housebot 0.3.x:

  • Switched to many simple brains (and stopped using Bouzy)
  • Brain: Gold Silver Grass - play in corners preferentially
  • Brain: Play Light - Don't play near other friendly stones
  • Brain: Increase Liberties - Extend/Connect to reach 4 liberties
  • Brain: Protect Base (Skirt) - Descend to block invasions
  • Beat its first human (so what if it was their first game after learning the rules several months prior!)

Housebot 0.2.x:

  • Added chain & liberty tracking
  • Understands stone captures and avoid suicide/ko

Housebot 0.1.x:

  • Brain based computation
  • One brain for legality (don't play on top of other stones)
  • Another brain for score estimates - Bouzy 5/21 Score Estimator

Housebot 0.0.x:

  • GTP operation
  • played along diagonal then resigned.

This is a copy of the living page "HouseBot" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2007 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
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