At the Portland Congress the situation reared its ugly (in minds of some folks at the meeting) head. Alan, the President of the AGA is fine with developing a procedure for ranking bots. At that time it was suggested that AGA members with solid ratings would volunteer to play bots a fixed number of times to set their rank. I tried to get people on this list involved in the testing of bots for this purpose, but there were no volunteers.
I believe that the previous head of the ratings system (who was pretty strongly against rating programs) is no longer in that position. He raised issues about "exactly the same code that was ranked" and was not receptive to the idea that people make adjustments to the way they view the game too. Are there enough ranked AGA members on this list that I can raise the issue within the AGA again and we can get some bots rated this time? Are authors interested enough in getting AGA ratings to do this? I am willing to be the point person on this effort if there is enough desire to make it happen. Cheers, David On 9, Aug 2011, at 4:04 PM, terry mcintyre wrote: > Why not ask for volunteers with known AGA ratings to play games in KGS under > tournament conditions with the top bots? You can use the KGS playing > interface without trusting the KGS rating system. > > Terry McIntyre <[email protected]> > > Unix/Linux Systems Administration > Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice. > From: David Doshay <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 6:57 PM > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] KGS highest rank Bot > > ... > 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 _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
