On 9/05/2016 23:16, Erik van der Werf wrote: > Why not McMahon? (possibly with reduced handicap). It works fine in > human Go tournaments.
http://senseis.xmp.net/?McMahon How does this work? That page doesn't mention handicaps. Indeed, the idea seems to be to eliminate large strength disparities in the early rounds of Swiss. > IMO KGS Swiss is pretty boring for most of the time, and the scheduler > often seems to have a lot of undesired influence on the final ranking. > Also at this point I'm really not that interested any more to see some > top engine win yet another bot tournament without serious competition; > I'd be more interested to see how many stones they could give to the > rest. Wouldn't it be fun to see how many stones AlphaGo could give to CS? I'm not sure if this is a comment on the tournament format or wishful thinking about the number and level of the tournament participants :-) -- GCP _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
