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Jean-loup Gailly <[email protected]> writes
indeed weak and new bots are particularly welcome.
I fully agree for new bots. But for the others I'm curious: how many
think it's a good idea to
encourage several very weak bots, except one for parity? They are
indeed very useful
for debugging but this should be done on cgos not in a tournament.
(Once again,
new bots should be encouraged even if they are weak. My question only
applies
to the weak bots which never change.) The tournaments would be, at
least for me,
more interesting if we could have more challenging games and fewer
boring ones.
My reason for encouraging IdiotBot and WeakBot50k is to provide
milestones for newcomers to match themselves against. The programmer of
a new bot can set himself the target of beating IdiotBot, and then
WeakBot50k.
For the "slow" tournaments which I will be running on KGS (there is one
from March 20th-25th), weak bots will not be allowed. I may define this
by saying that entry is restricted to bots that have beaten WeakBot50k
(or maybe SimpleBot) in a completed game in a regular KGS bot
tournament.
Nick
Jean-loup
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