On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 16:52 -0700, Dave Dyer wrote: > I figured that a credible anchor player for 19x19 might > need a lot of cycles, and need to play a lot of games > at first, so spreading the load would be a good idea.
Yes, that's true. When the server first goes up, there are no rated players and the games of 2 unrated players have no affect on each other. It takes a long time for ratings to converge in this case. When I started the 9x9 server I seeded it before opening it up to everyone. I played a few hundred matches between the anchor, gnugo and other players I had access to so that there would be reasonable rating pool to start with. It's actually not a big problem if you pick a default rating that is close to the average - unfortunately you don't know what the average will be in advance! I will probably make some stable and common version of gnugo be the anchor for 19x19. If others want to run an instance of it I can set them up as anchors too - I just need to know the names of any bots set up to be anchors. I'll put up a 19x19 version tomorrow on boardspace at 30 minutes per game. - Don _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
