Thanks Nick, I love the slow bot tournaments. Two reasons:
1) For me computer go is a hobby and to hire 6 cluster instances on EC2 is about 150$ for a tournament. 3 tournaments one i7-4770k:) 2) Not all programs can handle clusters. It is an additional problem for authors, which are trying to get into this business. And I can tell you, it is difficult enough to get into it:) If you look at the last slow bot tournaments only few programs (gomorra, orego and zen) used clusters, maybe partly because of this reasons. Detlef Am Sonntag, den 01.09.2013, 20:00 +0100 schrieb Nick Wedd: > The September KGS bot tournament will start at 22:00 UTC on Sunday > September 8th, and end by 22:00 UTC on Tuesday August 10th. > > It will have 6 rounds, Swiss, with 19x19 boards. The time limits > will be three hours each, sudden death. The komi will be 7.5. There > are details at http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=835 . > > Please register by emailing me, with the words > "KGS Tournament Registration" in the email title, at > [email protected] . > > This may be the last "slow" tournament, with time limits of over an > hour each, that I run. Now that cloud computing is easily available, > I believe that there is little purpose in setting such slow time > limits. If you want to see how a bot does given a lot of thinking > time, it makes more sense to hire multiple processors than to let > it run for a long time. (If you think I am wrong, you can probably > convince me of it.) > > Nick _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
