Hi Don, adding silently 0.5 second per move to the clock seems a good idea and simple enough. In 9x9 10 minutes, the communication time is not really a problem as you can take 30 s security and games are quite short, but for 19x19 it can be important. Of course in a 1 minute game, you can't take a 30 s security :).
Sylvain > 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/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
