> just to elaborate the original shodan-go bet was intended to be > " Fischer time control. 40 mins + 20 secs/move." > and was later changed to 110 minutes each, sudden death > see http://dcook.org/gobet/details.html
Yes, we had to give up on that simply because no programs support it, and I had no way to motivate programmers to add it. Perhaps Jouni's money could be viewed as a donation to have at least one program support it at last. (*) Our Shodan Go Bet time management was also complicated by the need to play moves between the actual board and the computer. > Funny the details note: > More time would probably favour a MCTS program, I think, at current hardware levels at least, Zen's results on KGS has proven me wrong on that. Darren *: The commercial programs simply need to see demand. So if anyone feels strongly about Fischer time control, set up a petition. A bunch of go programmers won't be enough, but I should think 100+ non-anonymous go players would be. The other great way to encourage new features would be for Nick Wedd to require it for just one of his tournaments. ...but KGS first need to support it, and you are back to your petition :-) -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
