I don't have a problem with a special CGOS day or week, but I would prefer to see an effort to get CGOS seeded with more variety at ALL times. Part of the convenience of having CGOS is that you can test a change at any time.
One way to do this is some kind of "sponsor" system. If you have spare cpu cycles agree to "host" someones bot for a period of time. A casual glance at CGOS (9x9) shows a 2198 rated program actively playing, and yet a 2550 rated program appears on the list - not having played since November 11th. I believe a lot of very strong programs resort to setting up their programs to play at low levels just to enjoy some competition. Something that may help a little is to build a client that dynamically switches programs so that you can run 2 or more bots (but only 1 at a time.) The switching should be randomized, not alternating. Would anyone be interested should I decide to build such a client? I would like to see 2 or 3 really strong bot's on CGOS at any given time too. The authors of such strong playing programs would have to be willing to let someone "sponsor" their program, giving them an executable for this purpose. And of course someone would have to be willing to BE such a sponsor, donating some of their computer resources. I'm not going to be the one to organize a special day or a sponsor system, but I would welcome either type of effort. - Don Rémi Coulom wrote: > Hi, > > I thought it may be a good idea to decide on a day when everybody > would connect to CGOS. Many programmers do not wish to let their > program play forever on the server, so it may be interesting to decide > on a day to connect, so that a high variety of programs can play > against each other. Maybe one week-end every month, between KGS > tournaments? What do you think? > > Rémi > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
