I agree that a lengthy discussion right now is probably not needed,
but I want to toss in a thought:
Every now and again, perhaps every 3 months, turn off ELO rating
and instead start using a variant of the "3 games in a row" method
for a fixed period of time, perhaps 2 weeks.
Many players at clubs do this: after N games in a row won or lost
between a specific pair of players, change the handicap by one.
On cgos it would not have to be the exact same player, but rather
just another player with a "similar" ELO rating. Eventually we should
find a rough correspondence, or a curve, between ELO difference
and handicap, and that could be used as the starting point in the
next handicap session.
I think this is in line the "tournament" purpose of cgos.
Cheers,
David
On 28, Oct 2007, at 2:37 PM, Don Dailey wrote:
Jason House wrote:
gtp has specific support for handicap games. If we do handicap, I'd
prefer to see the server use those specialized commands.
Of course that's better, but I'm talking about a quick and dirty
solution. I may never implement handicap games since it's tricky
with
ELO ratings.
We talked about this at one time and it was a very complicated issue.
Do we award compensation for handicap stones, etc. Also there is an
issue of how to figure this into the ELO rating formula.
I don't want to get into another round of discussing this right now.
I might implement this in a later server version but probably not any
time soon.
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