On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:33:36PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > I am considering to change the time control when I change > over officially to 5 minutes instead of 10. 5 minutes seems > more than adequate for the Monte Carlo programs which play > quite strongly even at 2 minutes per game. > > What does everything think about that?
Fine by me. > The server adds 1 second gift to each move silently, in > order to allow for server overheads and network lags and > glitches. This is pretty generous and actually adds a > minute or more the the length of the games. I think this > should probably be cut to 1/2 second instead of a full > second and I will make that change. Quite fine by me. My quick program halgo-1.7-10k always seemed to have 120 seconds left, no matter what happened. Maybe even 0.1 seconds would be sufficient. In fact I don't quite see the point in adding the extra time. Both players get as much, and both are supposed to have the same amount of time available, so it should not make much of a difference. I can se an argument for it, in the case the opponent plays silly moves just to kill time, and hope to win on time. But we already play the games to the bitter end, so that should not matter so much. Maybe the time should only be added after a player has passed once? I am still not sure about all the consequences of this, but I don't see it as a major problem, one way or the other. - Heikki -- Heikki Levanto "In Murphy We Turst" heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
