In my 3 visits to the Cotsen Open, I had only 2 people decline to play against 
my program. One traveled from a remote location so he felt that his travel 
budget was better spent doing something he could not do online from home, and 
the other was a parent of a child who simply rejected the idea completely. The 
child wanted to play against the program, and did so later after the official 
games. 

At this time games played against bots do not have any effect upon your AGA 
ranking. The problem from the perspective of the guy who was in charge of the 
AGA ranking system is that there is no uniform way of giving a program its 
rating. He is completely against using KGS ratings because on the internet 
people can hide behind fake names and can game their ratings in various ways.

Cheers,
David



On 9, Aug 2011, at 2:52 PM, Michael Williams wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Don Dailey <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
>  
> Even though I wanted to play my programs in these tournaments,  I was 
> sympathetic to the "humans" point of view.  
>  
> ...
>  
> Are you accusing them of being androids or something?  :P
>  
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