I am thinking of making some small changes to the way I run bot tournaments on KGS. If you have ever taken part in a KGS bot tournament, I would like to hear your opinions on three things.
1. Limit on processor power? This is the main point on which I want your opinions. The other two are trivial. Several people have suggested to me that these events would be fairer if there were a limit on the computing power of the entrants. I would like to do this, but I don't know how. I have little understanding of the terminology, I don't know how *e.g.* multiple cores in one computer compare with multiple computers on one network, and I don't know how to count a graphics card. *If* someone can find a way to specify an upper limit to permitted power which is clear and easy to understand, and *if* most entrants would favor imposing such a limit, I will discuss what it should be, and apply it. I am not able to check what entrants are really running on, but I will trust people. 2. Zeroes in the "Annual Championship" table. The table at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/annual/index.html has a 0 in a cell where a program competed but did not score, and a blank where it did not compete (at least it should do, I sometimes get it wrong). I would prefer to omit these zeroes, they seem a bit rude. Also there is no clear distinction between competing and not competing - how should I treat a program which crashes and disappears after two rounds, or one (like AyaMC last Sunday) which plays in every round but is broken and has no chance of winning? I realise that the zeroes some convey information that may be of interest. Should I continue to use them, or just leave those cells blank? 3. Live crosstable When I write up my reports, I include a crosstable, like the one near the top of http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/116/index.html . This is easy for me, I run a script which reads the data from the KGS page ( http://www.gokgs.com/tournEntrants.jsp?sort=s&id=990 in this case) and builds the crosstable in html, which I copy into the tournament report. It only works for Swiss (and maybe Round Robin) tournaments. It works while the tournament is still running, though only between rounds.I could build a current crosstable each round during a tournament if there is any demand for it. -- Nick Wedd [email protected]
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