Hi Jacques,
On 02/12/2011 12:50, Jacques Basaldúa wrote:
Hi Nick,
Thank you for organizing the tournament. My hardware was a Phenom II (6
core) at 3.3 GHz not overclocked.
Thank you for this. I have updated my report.
It think it is fair to give MyGoFriend my 4th place manually as you did,
because it won against my program and deserves the place even if it lost
due to protocol issues against PNUgo. Nevertheless, ironing out the
protocol issues is part of computer go development (I know because I
still have a lot to work to be satisfied with my own program) and I
recommend to clarify in what cases will the KGS tournament system be
overridden. Other programs have had "unfair" (i.e., protocol related)
losses in the past, and I think it works as a motivation to improve the
program. If you asked my opinion, I would not override the KGS
tournament system at all.
I agree - I consider an important purpose of my KGS bot tournaments is
to persuade programmers to support the protocol correctly. I only
decided to override the forfeiting of the game by MyGoFriend when I
found that the KGS games database showed the game as won by MyGoFriend.
I believed, when I decided to count the game as a win for MyGoFriend,
that there was a bug in KGS.
Later I learned from KGS's programmer that having a game shown as a win
by the games database and as a loss by forfeit in the tournament system
is deliberate. Now that I know this, I shall give priority to the
result as given by the tournament system. However I do not think it
would now be right to reverse the decision I made for that game.
I prefer to reserve the right to override the KGS tournament system, in
cases where I am convinced it is mistaken.
I have expanded my report, to include the above.
Best wishes,
Nick
Jacques.
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