Any start time is good for me. I can't watch the whole games anyway. - Don
Nick Wedd wrote: > Don, > >> I was hoping you would have a really long time-control 9x9 >> tournament. I know you did not get much interest when you mentioned >> it before but it might be an impetus to improve the memory behavior of >> long running bots. Also, I want to experiment with my alpha/beta >> searcher which would benefit greatly from such a long running tournament >> - although I doubt it would beat the good UCT players. >> >> It might be fun with 9x9 or 13x13. 19x19 games are so long that even >> when you have a 12 hour tournament they still cannot think more than 4 >> or 5 minutes per move. In this sense it does seem like a long game, >> it just seems rather chess-like. (In chess it's common in important >> matches to play at a rate of about 3 minutes per move.) >> >> So could you have a 9x9 or 13x13 12 hour per side tournament? > > Yes, I'll do it. My proposals are: > > 9x9, Chinese rules, 7.5 komi > 12 hours each sudden death > five-round Swiss > It'll be sometime in the next three months, I won't decide when > before January 3rd or so > > Does anyone have any views on the timetabling (or on any of the > above)? The last bot tournament like this started at Sunday/Monday > midnight, and ended late on Friday, GMT. As I cannot be present to > supervise the whole thing, I don't much mind which parts I do > supervise, so I am pretty flexible about the timetable. I would > prefer the start to be while I am awake, so not between 01:00 and > 08:00 GMT. > > Nick _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
