Hi Don,
I remember when CGOS first came up, I expected it to be a few years before a program could achieve 2000.0 on the CGOS scale.
I hope you are more optimistic on the future.
At some point the Anchor program will be too weak to be taken seriously and we will have to replace it!
Having an anchor at a much higher level would be very useful, in order to have the rating converge more quickly (and accurately). I think the last version of Lazarus would do a great job, for at least two (essential) reasons: very strong (rated at 2100 ELO) and keep the transitivity (very important) i.e. the winning rate of Lazarus against every other programs matches the difference in ELO. I know it does not match the "do not take resources" requirement, and you would have to dedicate a computer for that. But with the number of programs at +- 2000 ELO, the 1500 AnchorMan is far too weak. Fortunately, ggexp is almost always connected and strong. Sylvain _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
