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2015 CGF Open

October 3rd and 4th

The CGF Open (Computer Go tournament in Japan) was held on October 3rd-4th. Ray won in 9x9. Ray's author is Yuki Kobayashi. He is a UEC student, and he has started Go programming since last year. He said Ray got stronger recently by using Latent Factor Ranking insted of MM.

Move Prediction in Go, Modelling Feature Interactions Using Latent Factors

nlp is a new program, and placed 3rd. It uses DCNN. nlp always plays its first choice. nlp learned 19x19 games first, then learned 9x9 games.

19x19 (10/4, swiss, komi 6.5, Japanese rule, 30 minutes)

           Aya Nom Ray MCa Kug car Kat May  Wins  SL  Rank
 Aya            1   1   1       1       1     5        1
 Nomitan    0       1   1   1       1         4        2
 Ray        0   0           1   1   1         3   14   3
 MC_ark     0   0           1       1   1     3   12   4
 Kugutsu        0   0   0       1       1     2   12   5
 caren      0       0       0       1   1     2   11   6
 Katsunari      0   0   0       0       1     1        7
 MayoiGo    0           0   0   0   0         0        8

9x9 (10/3, round-robin, komi 7.5, Chinese rule, 10 minutes)

           Aya MCa Ray car May Kat nlp OKO Mel Tou  Wins Rank
 Aya            1   0   1   1   1   1   1   1   1    8-1  2
 MC_ark     0       0   1   1   1   0   1   1   1    6-3  3
 Ray        1   1       1   1   1   1   1   1   1    9-0  1
 caren      0   0   0       1   1   1   1   1   1    6-3  3
 MayoiGo    0   0   0   0       0   0   1   1   1    3-6  6
 Katsunari  0   0   0   0   1       0   0   1   1    3-6  6
 nlp        0   1   0   0   1   1       1   1   1    6-3  3
 OKOJO      0   0   0   0   0   1   0       0   1    2-7  8
 Melo       0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1       0    1-8  9
 Tour       0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1        1-8  9