People sometimes ask me how to get their bot on KGS rated. I am posting
this to explain the issues.
If the bot is not "yours", but a build of GNU Go or some other program
that you haven't written yourself, you won't be able to get it rated. I
am not going to explain why, just forget it.
If you have written the bot yourself, and I am aware of this and believe
that you and the bot are genuine, then I can try to help you. Email
your request to me, and I will pass it on with my endorsement. Or if
you don't want my endorsement, send it direct to [email protected].
I should explain the issue of stability. Bots play a lot of games and
acquire stable ratings, and other players' ratings depend on their bot
games. So a bot which appears on KGS, gets rated as 25k, plays hundreds
of games, and then improves to 15k, is going to do a lot of damage to
the rating system. So if you have a new weak bot, and you are working
on it and expect to improve it, then they won't be willing to rate it. A
rated bot should be a stable build, and should not be changed. If you
get a rated bot account, and then find a way to make your bot stronger,
don't run the new build with the old rated account. Apply for a new
account for the new stronger build.
Nick
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Nick Wedd [email protected]
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