Hi Nick, > I plan to hold another Slow tournament, once the KGS "five-minute rule" > but has been fixed. Good idea, this tournament have been popular.
> I am also considering having a Fast tournament, with maybe a minute each > for 9x9, or four minutes each for 19x19. Would there be interest in > such an event? What board size, and time limit, would be popular? This is a good idea. Of course for the board size and time limits we have to test. 1 minute for 9x9 seems well suited. 4 minutes for 19x19 seems very quick, at least I think that MC programs would not play better than random at this speed :). I have one concern about communication time. It appeared to me that on KGS, MoGo can only play 4 (random) moves a second (of course it is not CPU time... :)). I saw that because on 19x19 one human is happy to beat MoGo on time simply by making the game as long as possible (almost 800 moves). With one minute left at the "real" end of the game, and playing random moves, MoGo can't manage to play the hundred moves that the human manages to create (by killing its one groups filling all eyes, then creating big empty spaces). Perhaps the duration of the game could be x minutes for the game+1 second per move to take into account the communication time? Anyway I think slow and fast tournaments are fun and also bring unusal problems which teach us interesting things. By the way, I find that the "normal" 19x19 tournaments with 18 minutes are already fast tournaments :). Sylvain _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
