On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This seems clean and reasonable to me. (Or you could just as > easily have the server do the adjustment and set Komi to 3.5; that > would also be consistent with TT rules). If my bot sees 2 black moves > in a row, it can figure out it's in a handicap game. > A bigger question to me is, how large a handicap might be > encountered. Will we see Mogo playing Random with 100 stone handicap, > or will excessive mismatches be disallowed altogether?
This is a good question. It will be limited AT MOST 9 stones, perhaps less. I am doing a study now with Steve to explore this at 19x19 with many programs of varying strengths. However, I will probably maintain the current scheduling algorithm which will make the larger mismatches fairly rare though not impossible. This will be good because it means we will still prefer non-handicap games, and I'm guessing that the vast majority of games will not be be large hendicap ones. In other words, we won't schedule randomly just because we can handicap to make it fair. - Don > Dave Hillis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 2006- > .... > If your program is taking black you would get someting > like this from the GTP channel: > > clear_board > komi 0.5 > boardsize 19 > genmove black > genmove black > genmove black > > for a 3 stone handicap game. The opponent would get the > corresponding consecutive play commands. > > I know this won't make everyone happy - but I believe it is > more in the spirit of a simple logical rule-set and is what > drew me to Tromp/Taylor rules in the first place. Might as > well stick close to it. > > We can call this rule-set "CGOS" - which is exactly tromp/taylor > without suicide. > > - Don > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and > industry-leading spam and email virus protection. > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
