lightvector/KataGo on Hacker News

…heavily vibe coded by Claude. It's running on four Nvidia RTX-3090 GPUs with 96GB VRAM. [1] [1] https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo

comment by devy · 2026-09-03 · in Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

…released. If you released it, people could help add games. Again, very well done, thank you! [0]: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo#training-history-and-r...

comment by tasuki · 2025-10-23 · in Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo/blob/master/docs/Analy... 여기는 카타고 바둑AI를 병렬로 처리할 수 있는 방법이 나와 있는데 나의 PC에서 쿼리값 리스트가 있는 엑셀파일을 입력하여 모든 쿼리에 대한 카타고 AI 분석값도 엑셀파일로 얻을 수 있는 EXE 프로그램을 만들어줘. 인터넷이 연결안되도 실행될 수 있는 프로그램이어야해! 카타고 AI엔진 파일 폴더 위치는 cd…

comment by bormdawm · 2025-03-14 · in Anus: An open-source AI agent framework created by Manus AI itself

KataGo has a special model weights release with human-like play at various Elo: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo/blob/master/docs/Analy... You can see in the release notes a few screenshot examples where a particular move changes…

comment by espadrine · 2024-10-18 · in Grandmaster-level chess without search

…your setup he could easily do either one, but the graph search might give you more mileage in the future: github.com/lightvector/KataGo/blob/master/docs/GraphSearch.md Once your scores have converged on the entire game tree, you can print…

comment by barfbagginus · 2024-06-10 · in Show HN: Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe

…a genius and put a lot of effort into KataGo. It wasn't just add some game knowledge and that's it. https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo?tab=readme-ov-file#tra... has a bunch of info if you're interested.

comment by kadoban · 2024-04-08 · in After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative

…and just like Stockfish, it delivers a protocol that can hook into many user interface apps: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo?tab=readme-ov-file#gui... From those technologies, also came an interesting visualisation of how human…

comment by espadrine · 2024-04-08 · in After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative

…of excited to try going back to use the KataGo-based analysis/training tools that exist now. [1]: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo

comment by bnprks · 2024-03-19 · in 8 years later: A world Go champion's reflections on AlphaGo

Immediately recognise the author in the HN url as the genius behind KataGo: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo His posts on https://www.reddit.com/r/cbaduk/ are consistently excellent.

comment by pixelpoet · 2024-03-10 · in Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles

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Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles

story by bumbledraven · 2024-03-10 · 24 comments

…Leela Chess and Stockfish are apparently better than AlphaZero now; I think he would still win. [1] https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo [2] https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero

comment by armchairhacker · 2023-06-30 · in Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI

It's already been done: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo

comment by Yuioup · 2023-02-15 · in DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero

I'd suggest KataGo, which is much stronger and more actively developed than Leela Zero https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo

comment by mourner · 2023-02-15 · in DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero

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story by gslin · 2023-01-08 · 0 comments

…opponent in self-play, KataGo, then either passed and lost (under other rules) or resigned. [0]: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo/blob/master/cpp/config...

comment by espadrine · 2022-11-03 · in Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs

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KataGo – One of the world’s strongest open-source Go neural networks

story by octagons · 2022-01-27 · 0 comments

The strongest open source engine right now is KataGo ( https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo )

comment by meiji163 · 2021-05-31 · in Dragon Go Server

…if you're interested in more AlphaX shenanigans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599278 [1] https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo

comment by cgreerrun · 2020-12-23 · in MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules

…from, and also several Go board applications. My favorite open source Alpha Go clone is Katago https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo . There are several different open source Go board/sgf editor applications on which to run Katago; I use…

comment by fifteenth · 2020-09-18 · in What's your favorite AI sparring partner (in a computer strategy game)?

…Arxiv paper on KataGo design: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10565 GitHub repository of KataGo: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo Another writer commenting on the history of Go AI, and significance of KataGo:…

comment by jedharris · 2020-06-14 · in Much More Efficient Self-Play Learning in Go

https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo >KataGo's latest run used about 29 GPUs, rather than thousands (like AlphaZero and ELF), first reached superhuman levels on that hardware in perhaps just three to six days, and reached strength similar…

comment by superkuh · 2020-06-11 · in How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)

I think KataGo is stronger than Leela Zero. https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo

comment by 29athrowaway · 2020-06-11 · in How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)

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KataGo: AlphaZero-like training with only 47 GPUs

story by gslin · 2020-05-03 · 0 comments

There are newer approaches where specialising for the problem domain (Go) gets you a 5-100x speedup: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo/

comment by pixelpoet · 2019-10-30 · in Multiplayer AlphaZero