07-10-2020, 12:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2020, 12:45 PM by Crazy Rémi.)
Hi Dennis
I am not sure about the meaning of your question. The point of choosing openings for a tournament is to make the openings as uncommon and unexpected as possible in order to avoid manual opening book preparation. The difficulty is to find positions that are as balanced as possible.
For renju, you can use the openings of the gomocup. I think they are available on their web site somewhere. If you wish to prevent participants from preparing openings in advance, you could pick a few of them at random among the past gomocup openings on the day of the tournament.
I have an online opening book there, from which you may pick balanced positions:
https://www.crazy-sensei.com/book/renju_15x15/
They were quickly evaluated with my engine, so the evaluation may be a little wrong. But that may be another source of many balanced opening positions.
Renju is usually played on 15x15, but I am not sure the gomocup is played on 15x15. Maybe 20x20. I don't remember well.
Hi Cameron,
I have not looked yet at how ludii works. I will take a closer look later.
Is there a way I can simulate the tournament conditions to test my system? Even if I end up participating in only one tournament, automated play is a lot more comfortable in my experience. I will try to make it work.
I am not sure about the meaning of your question. The point of choosing openings for a tournament is to make the openings as uncommon and unexpected as possible in order to avoid manual opening book preparation. The difficulty is to find positions that are as balanced as possible.
For renju, you can use the openings of the gomocup. I think they are available on their web site somewhere. If you wish to prevent participants from preparing openings in advance, you could pick a few of them at random among the past gomocup openings on the day of the tournament.
I have an online opening book there, from which you may pick balanced positions:
https://www.crazy-sensei.com/book/renju_15x15/
They were quickly evaluated with my engine, so the evaluation may be a little wrong. But that may be another source of many balanced opening positions.
Renju is usually played on 15x15, but I am not sure the gomocup is played on 15x15. Maybe 20x20. I don't remember well.
Hi Cameron,
I have not looked yet at how ludii works. I will take a closer look later.
Is there a way I can simulate the tournament conditions to test my system? Even if I end up participating in only one tournament, automated play is a lot more comfortable in my experience. I will try to make it work.