In view of the responses I have received, I have opened up entry to weaker players.
I like David's idea of a requirement of some specified CGOS rating. I'll say 1100 for now, and see how it works out. When I look at CGOS, it gives me lists of ratings for 9x9 and 13x13 (which covers the April tournament), but nothing for 19x19; why is this? Nick On 1 April 2015 at 19:23, David Doshay <[email protected]> wrote: > I have not competed in the KGS tournaments for many years, but here is my > suggestion: now that CGOS is up and running again, set a minimum rating > level on CGOS, perhaps something like 1000 or 1200. In that way new > programers will be encouraged to use CGOS for primary comparison against > existing programs, but they won’t be excluded from the tournaments until > they can beat programs that have many many years of development. I can > understand setting the level higher for some tournaments, such as the very > long time tournaments, but setting the bar at GNU Go seems too high for the > standard monthly tournaments. > > Cheers, > David G Doshay > > [email protected] > > > > > > On 1, Apr 2015, at 6:11 AM, Nick Wedd <[email protected]> wrote: > > I will be willing to welcome players of all strengths, if that is what the > strong players want. > > My reason for excluding weaker players is that, last time this was > discussed, at least one > operator of a strong player said that he did not want to set it up and > operate it and then see > it win a succession of games against players five or more grades weaker. > If that has > changed, I will gladly relax the requirement that entrants be at least as > strong as GNU Go. > > So, I welcome Rémi's opinion, and I hope that other operators of strong > programs will tell > me their opinions. > > Nick > > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > -- Nick Wedd [email protected]
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