On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 14:51 -0500, Don Dailey wrote: > 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.
Another way would be to find a way that sponsors/owners don't have to keep manually restarting their bots every few days. I'm more than willing to run bots 24/7, but I get lazy and don't restart them. > 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 certainly would. Urban Hafner posted a small script that did something like this. With a few enhancements, that may work too. > 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. Fair enough _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
