On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 17:05 -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Two servers is easy, but 1 server is better. The plan is that I will > combine fast and slow games into one server. When a slow round is > complete, there will be a delay while the current fast round is being > completed. In this way a program can play both fast and slow games or > both, but the slow games will get precedent. The fast games will be > played basically to fill the time between long slow rounds and also > enable a bot to get both a slow and fast rating.
This sounds like a reasonable compromise. I have only one question: What about slow players that want fast games too? I assume most slow players will play slow games and therefore use up nearly all of the time available. Depending on the pool of slow players, some dual fast+slow players may only play slow games. I have two ideas that might help solve this if it's an issue: 1. Occasionally allow a fast round between slow rounds 2. Occasionally have a dual player sit out from a slow round if the number of slow games to fast games exceeds some threshold. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
