Hi Sylvain, Do you think it would be useful to add 1/2 second for CGOS games? I have long considered doing that. I would still consider it fixed time games - I would just silently add 1/2 second to the clock for each move as a kind of internal benefit of the doubt factor - it's clear that some time is lost automatically even under the best conditions.
- Don On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 18:41 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Nick, > > > I plan to hold another Slow tournament, once the KGS "five-minute rule" > > but has been fixed. > Good idea, this tournament have been popular. > > > I am also considering having a Fast tournament, with maybe a minute each > > for 9x9, or four minutes each for 19x19. Would there be interest in > > such an event? What board size, and time limit, would be popular? > > This is a good idea. Of course for the board size and time limits we have to > test. 1 minute for 9x9 seems well suited. 4 minutes for 19x19 seems very > quick, at least I think that MC programs would not play better than random at > this speed :). > I have one concern about communication time. It appeared to me that on KGS, > MoGo can only play 4 (random) moves a second (of course it is not CPU > time... :)). I saw that because on 19x19 one human is happy to beat MoGo on > time simply by making the game as long as possible (almost 800 moves). With > one minute left at the "real" end of the game, and playing random moves, MoGo > can't manage to play the hundred moves that the human manages to create (by > killing its one groups filling all eyes, then creating big empty spaces). > > Perhaps the duration of the game could be x minutes for the game+1 second per > move to take into account the communication time? > > Anyway I think slow and fast tournaments are fun and also bring unusal > problems which teach us interesting things. By the way, I find that the > "normal" 19x19 tournaments with 18 minutes are already fast tournaments :). > > Sylvain > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
