Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.

2009-06-16 Thread Isaac Deutsch
I'm voting for 2 time settings: One normal and one fast (so maybe 5 min and 1 min on 9x9). -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.

2009-06-16 Thread Don Dailey
From what I can see, there is resistance to this idea - so what I'm going to do is to provide venues which are standalone but makes it possible later to add a time control.In other words for now there will be only 1 time control per board size but the server will be flexible enough that other

[computer-go] building a combinatorial game theory bot

2009-06-16 Thread Thomas Nelson
Hi, I've decided to build a go program based on combinatorial game theory, And I'm looking for any pointers or advice that might save me trouble later. I looked a little in the archives, and while there are references to CGT in a few places, I haven't seen any attempts to build a full engine

Re: [computer-go] building a combinatorial game theory bot

2009-06-16 Thread Isaac Deutsch
Sounds interesting. Have you considered learning these temperatures from pro games? -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 ___ computer-go mailing list

Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.

2009-06-16 Thread Łukasz Lew
Maybe we could agree that 1 day out of 7 in a week would be played on 6 times faster time controls. The same bots, connections, logins, the same number of games per week. Different rating of course. This would be a problem only for hardcoded bots with no time control. The advantage would be that

Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.

2009-06-16 Thread Michael Williams
I vote for 2 venues, each optional. Separate rating pools is a must. Łukasz Lew wrote: Maybe we could agree that 1 day out of 7 in a week would be played on 6 times faster time controls. The same bots, connections, logins, the same number of games per week. Different rating of course. This

Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.

2009-06-16 Thread Christian Nentwich
Whatever the eventual decision is - personally I would love a fast-play venue as an alternative, with separate rating - please don't worry too much about engines with fixed playouts, or engines that cannot handle certain time limits. The GTP client sitting between the engine and server will

Re: [computer-go] New CGOS - need your thoughts.

2009-06-16 Thread Christoph Birk
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Brian Sheppard wrote: Please don't do anything that decreases the frequency of games in order to accommodate programs that want to play on multiple venues. Keep venues strictly separate. Programs that want to play on multiple venues can just log in multiple times. I second