Hi Chrilly, I find it pretty amazing that even a little money will inspire people to play a computer who wouldn't otherwise.
Many years ago my old chess programs were welcome at tournaments, but as soon as players started losing, the program wore out it's welcome! The change was like night and day. We came to one tournament and almost everyone signed the "refuse to play a computer list." So I offered 5 dollars for a draw and 10 dollars for a win. This tiny incentive caused almost all the players to agree to play the computer and in fact many players begged to play it. What was ironic, was that didn't pay out a single penny but everyone was happy! - Don On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 18:53 +0100, Chrilly wrote: > > > >>For Suzie I try for 9x9 to establish a Dan-ranking at the next European > >>Championship in Villach/Austria. > > > > Do you mean that you are planning to enter it for a regular "human" Go > > event? Have you checked that the organisers will allow this? > > > > I once entered Professor Chen's HandTalk for a human Go tournament which I > > was organising, in Oxford. I received no complaints from its opponents, > > but several from stronger players, and from British Go Association > > officials, who asked me never to do this again. > > > > Nick > > I am in touch with the organizers. They have asked me to give a lecture > about computer-go. Maybe one can organize around this a 9x9 match humans > against Suzie. Some sort of practical lecture. One has to give the humans > some (small) incentive to take the match serious. E.g. at the Vienna chess > open I played once with Nimzo Blitz. Every player had to pay 1$. The money > was put in a pot and the first winner of a game got the pot. This was > extremly popular and some players even went away during their games to hit > the jack-pot. > > I do not plan to play in the official part of the tournament. There is up > to my knowledge anyway no 9x9 tournament and if it is, an EC is for humans > and not for computers. > > Chrilly > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
