On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Robert Finking <[email protected]> wrote: > Cluster candidates are happy with existing tournaments as they can max out > on hardware. What motivation do they have to enter a tournament which limits > their hardware? The hardware bar needs to be high enough to not put them off > or they will not want to compete. > > Laptop candidates seem happy enough with existing tournaments but do have an > interest in a level playing field. However, if the hardware bar is high > enough to make the tournament interesting to cluster candidates then it > becomes uninteresting to laptop candidates since the level playing field has > disappeared. > > So, whatever level you place the hardware bar one group or the other will be > less motivated to join in, or you compromise so that neither is motivated. > Surely, charging participants will put more candidates off?
It's obviously a typical case of not being able to please everybody all of the time. I didn't think anyone suggested replacing all of the existing tournaments with one with equal hardware. But it might be interesting to have one tournament where the hardware is defined. I'd say use some middle ground with say somewhere between 4-16 cores so the cost to run it isn't very high, but that debate is a different one. Mark _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
