I once played in a tournament like that. What happened was that the stronger player would typically double very early in the game (e.g. on the first dubious non-joseki move). In one game my opponent was 6d (~500 Elo stronger than me) so when he increased the stakes I immediately resigned; I probably would have resigned even if he had doubled on move 2. Is this really what you want?
Erik On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Jonathan Chetwynd <[email protected]> wrote: > Could a 'doubling dice'** encourage early resignation by programs? > > each program would have to forfeit a double game, if it played on and lost > the game, > but could resign for a single loss. > > scores in earnest might need to be tallied in the public arena. > though one would hope that the application designers..... > > regards > > Jonathan Chetwynd > http://www.peepo.com > > **as per backgammon, either player can double, but then it is the > opponent's choice to resign or accept, > and to redouble at their discretion, though this aspect may be ott. > apologies if I missed the obvious, > > it seems I omitted the most severe error, playing on, when a game is lost. > in the thread: Are 4 'easy to avoid errors' common to all MC programs? > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
