There has been much talk of a 19x19 CGOS and I have had people offer systems to run it on. I think Dave Dyer also would let us run a 19x19 version.
David Doshay has offered some space for it too - which is what I am leaning towards right now. I haven't implemented any of the handicap stuff, but CGOS would work otherwise without any change. Maybe that is good way to start. I still have this horrible fear that 9x9 would suffer if several programs moved over to 19x19. Or perhaps BOTH would suffer from a lack of a variety of competition. What might be useful is if there was an organized system of volunteers who might be willing to run an instance of your program on request for a few days? CGOS has not been particularly stable until just recently. I fixed a bug about 10 days ago and it has been running without a problem since then, so I think it's reasonably stable now. I was not willing to think about another server until I can be sure that it's possible to run for weeks in a row without bugs. But maybe the time is just about right. - Don On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:58 +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:24AM -0600, David Silver wrote: > > But... in practice, I haven't got good results on larger boards. But > > to be honest, I've focused much more on 9x9, so perhaps I've missed > > some simple tricks. > > I think there has been a marked change of interest since the > introduction of UCT, and - around the same time - the cgos 9x9 > tournament page. > > I understand that most people do their experiments on 9x9, the results > are available so much faster. Still, I think it might be time to loosen > the focus on 9x9, and have some more things happening on other sizes. > > Would there be interest in a tournament system for 19x19 programs? > Something like 30 mins / player sounds like a reasonable extrapolation. > > > -H > > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
