Hi, regarding time controls and the impossibility to please everyone, I'd like to make a suggestion:
Let the engines specify a preferred time control and use a scheduler that takes that into account (as a strong recommendation). For example if there are two engines wanting to play at 10 minutes, pair them with higher probability. There could be just a few predefined time limits, maybe 5, 10, 15 minutes for 9x9. IMHO this would be better than using a different server for each time limit or than changing the time limit at intervals (although having a one week rotation between 5 and 10 minutes seems ok). Of course, the scheduling algorithm becomes more complex and it may not be as "fair". On the other hand, it may not be very important to achieve fairness on a short scale as long as it is fair enough over a longer period of time. just my 2c best regards, Vlad _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
