I noticed that GnuGo is alsousing 10 min.time limit. People's complaining about Crazystone's time can be viewed as the program is getting better. GnuGo uses 10 min time limit. It's short for serious human games. I think part of the reason is that computer program didn't play that well before and not warrent a serious game. But now computer program is getting stronger and they can play a serious game. Probably we should set up a standard for matches between computer programs and humans. A program should follow this standard, otherwise the ranking and results is not recognized. In principle longer time is to the advantage of computer program. I suggest we setthe the time standard as following 1. For test games the match time is 10 min.each. The rank and results obtained are not recognized as representing the computer state of the art. 2. For non tournament matches the time is set as 23 min. each. The rank and results obtained will be recognized as representing the state of art for the program. 3. For tournament matches the time is set as 30 min. each. The rank and results obtained will be recognized. 4. For mtahces between the computer programs and the professional Go players the time is set as 1 hour each. The rank and results will be recognized. Above is for 19x19games. Since the byo yomi is hard to implement in computer programs, we may just use one time limit. This is just my suggestions. Daniel Liu ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
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