DAMY from Gérard TAILLE strongest Draughtsprogram ever ?

[Hanco Elenbaas]

De komende toernooien zijn de 12de Computer Olympiade 11-18 Juni, en het open Nederlandse Computer Dammen wat normaal gesproken in December in Culemburg gehouden wordt.

Ik weet niet of Damy hierbij aanwezig is, maar het zijn in ieder geval toernooien waarbij computer dammen plaats vindt.

De uitslag van Damy is inderdaad indrukwekkend !
Kortom ik zal mijn best doen om Damage nog sterker te maken.

Bert

Hi Bert,
I’m sorry I do not understand. You and Damy will not play?
Mark

Damy probably won't play. Bert Tuyt and Damage will be there. The 12th Computer Olympiad is in Amsterdam from June 11th up to June 18.
See: http://www.icga.org/

Maybe some strong programs from Russia will be present too, http://www.shashki.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-857.html , so it would be nice if you will be able to defend the USA in Amsterdam!

[Hanco Elenbaas]

DAMY and Gérard TAILLE won't be there in Amsterdam. On the forum of the French Draughts Federation Gérard TAILLE writes that he possibly will join the festival in Culemborg end 2007:

http://www.ffjd.fr/Web/index.php?page=f ... sujet=5173#

Bonjour,

Je n'ai pas prévu de faire participer Damy à ces olympiades. La date du 11 au 18 juin ne me convient pas du tout car c'est mon créneau vacances sur la côte d'Azur avec ma charmante épouse !

Ceci dit mes adversaires hollandais à Hamel m'ont proposé de venir les affronter au tournoi de Culemborg en fin d'année et je leur ai laisser entendre que cela m'intéressait.

Dans un certain sens cela m'arrange car cela me donne plus de temps pour améliorer Damy qui en a encore bien besoin.

Amitiés
Gérard

[Hanco Elenbaas]

From the newsgroup alt.games.draughts :

From 2007-06-11 to 2007-06-18, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The 15th World Computer-Chess Championship and the 12th Computer Olympiad
will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in conjunction with the Computer
Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007).

IBM, SARA (Academic Computer Centre Amsterdam) and NCF (Foundation of
National Computing Facilities) are enabling the organization of the Computer
Games Workshop 2007 (CGW2007) (15-17 June 2007), the 15th World
Computer-Chess Championship (WCCC) (11-18 June) and the 12th Computer
Olympiad (CO) (11-18 June) to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Location: The Turing hall, Science Park Amsterdam, Kruislaan 419, 1098 VA
Amsterdam.

Below we mention 28 different games for which a program can be submitted to
the Olympiad.

Abalone
Amazons
Arimaa
Backgammon
Bao
Bridge
Chinese Chess
8x8 Checkers
Clobber
Computational Pool
Connect6
Diplomacy
Dominoes
Dots and Boxes
10x10 Draughts
Gipf
Go
9x9 Go
Hex
Kriegspiel
Lines of Action
6x7 OCTI
9x9 OCTI
Othello
Poker
Renju
Scrabble
Shogi

The game of Renju, claimed to be solved, is still welcome since we have not
seen a fully-operational program on internet that plays perfectly. Moreover,
we are willing to host more games, such as Ataxx, Dvonn, Mediocrity, Onyx,
Tamsk, TwixT and Zèrtz but we do not know of the existence of adequately
playing programs. We are awaiting suggestions and proposals of programmers
before we include them in the official list given above.

For each game a tournament will take place provided that at least two
programs enter the tournament for that particular game. Gold, Silver and
Bronze medals will be awarded to the leading programs in each tournament.

The Tournament Director of the WCCC and Computer Olympiad will be: H.J. van
den Herik.

The rules of the WCCC and Computer Olympiad will be soon published.

The entry fees for the WCCC are as follows:

Amateur: ? 25
Semi-professional: ? 250
Professional: ? 500

The entry fees for the other tournaments are as follows:

Amateur: ? 25
Semi-professional: ? 100
Professional: ? 250

A participant is expected to be ICGA member (? 40).

Deadline early registration: May 21, 2007. Registration after May 21, 2007
will double the entry fee.

"Amateur": programmers who have no commercial interest in their program, and
are not professional game programmers. Applications for amateur
classification must supply information to justify their claim.

"Semi-professional": Any program submitted by an employee or associate from
a games-programming company. The program's name must not be derived from or
similar to a commercial product.

"Professional": A program whose name is the same as or derived from a
commercial product.


www.icga.org
http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/icga/event.php?id=40

[Jacques PERMAL]

MESSAGE DE SERGE MINAUX (COMPIEGNE, FRANCE)

s.minaux@wanadoo.fr

Bonjour,

Dimanche 22 avril à 13h30 à 18 heures , tournoi détente!

Le Damier Compiègnois vous invite à vous réunir autour d'un damier pour participer à un tournoi en 5 parties semi-rapides.

Cadence de jeu:
Programme 11 de la pendule DGT2000 soit: 20 minutes par joueurs suivis de 5 secondes par coups.

Série de 6 joueurs suivant le classement mobile de la FFJD.

Dans la 1ére série 2 ordinateurs participeront à la compétition :
- Gérard Taille avec son logiciel " Damy" Champion de France des logiciels 2007
- Eddy Balavoine avec son tout nouveau logiciel "Virtual Draughts".

Lieu de la compétition: Annexe de l'Hôtel de Ville de Compiègne , 2 rue de la surveillance.

Inscriptions auprès de Serge Minaux : tél: 03 44 90 01 08

s.minaux@wanadoo.fr

Amitiés " Damistes" ,

Serge Minaux

[mschribr]

De komende toernooien zijn de 12de Computer Olympiade 11-18 Juni, en het open Nederlandse Computer Dammen wat normaal gesproken in December in Culemburg gehouden wordt.

Ik weet niet of Damy hierbij aanwezig is, maar het zijn in ieder geval toernooien waarbij computer dammen plaats vindt.

De uitslag van Damy is inderdaad indrukwekkend !
Kortom ik zal mijn best doen om Damage nog sterker te maken.

Bert

Hi Bert,
I’m sorry I do not understand. You and Damy will not play?
Mark

Damy probably won't play. Bert Tuyt and Damage will be there. The 12th Computer Olympiad is in Amsterdam from June 11th up to June 18.
See: http://www.icga.org/

Maybe some strong programs from Russia will be present too, http://www.shashki.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-857.html , so it would be nice if you will be able to defend the USA in Amsterdam!

I did not write a draughts program. But I enjoy Draughts and watching the computer play.
Computer translation is still bad. So it would be nice if people posted in english then more people could follow this forum. Thank you.

[TAILLE]

Hello,

For your information Damy is still under development. I worked hard to build a rather optimised 6 pieces endgame database and I am working on the 7 pieces endgame database. The challenge is very interesting and I hope to have some results (a significant part of this database) before the end of this 2007 year.
In parallel I have also to improve the strategies used by Damy and I have to teach Damy new stratégies.
A lot of work for me !!!

Gérard

[mschribr]

Hello,

For your information Damy is still under development. I worked hard to build a rather optimised 6 pieces endgame database and I am working on the 7 pieces endgame database. The challenge is very interesting and I hope to have some results (a significant part of this database) before the end of this 2007 year.
In parallel I have also to improve the strategies used by Damy and I have to teach Damy new stratégies.
A lot of work for me !!!

Gérard

Hi Gérard,
Damy is very strong today. You won 9 out of 10 games against strong programs. How would you rate your program in comparison to the Draughts world champion?
Mark

[TAILLE]

Hi Mark,
Of course I am very happy with the result obtained by Damy in this french open tournament, but, as you prefectly know, the best programs (Damage, Flits, Truus, Buggy) were not present. The next step for will be for me to participate at the Culemborg tournament at the end of 2007 where I hope the best programs will be present.

Concerning a comparison with the Draughts world champion I am not very sure that a match would be a good idea. I think that some of the best players in the world have sometimes a training session with a program and they know perfectly the level of these programms (generally very strong in the endgame and in the tactical area and not so strong in the middle game strategy).
For me the worse senario would be a win of the program in a match with the best player in the world. It could not be good for the Draughts game itself !!! Who will be then motivated to play such game ?
My view is that competions between computers is another activity (very interesting as far as I am concerned) and my opinion is that computers may help (strong) players to become stronger and stronger.

Gérard

[Jacques PERMAL]

MESSAGE DE SERGE MINAUX sur le FORUM FFJD :

MESSAGE OF SERGE MINAUX ON FFJD FORUM :

Bonjour,

Vous pouvez visualiser sur ce lien quelques parties jouées par les ordinateurs au Championnat de France des ordinateurs à HAMEL:

http://perso.orange.fr/eddy.balavoine/V ... /index.htm

Serge

Games of FRENCH CHAMPIONSHIP OF SOFTWARES here :

http://perso.orange.fr/eddy.balavoine/V ... /index.htm

[TAILLE]

In the Damy-Virtual Draughts game there is a notation error; instead of 20...01-06 21.37-31 13-18 it has been play in the real game
20...13-18 21.37-31 01-06
Gérard

[Jacques PERMAL]

PARTIE SEMI-RAPIDE (20 minutes + 20 secondes / coup)

RAPID GAME (20 minutes + 20 secondes / move)

PASCAL HONTARREDE (NICE) - DAMY : 0-2

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