On Dec 13, 2007 4:51 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have a suggestion for a specific mechanism for this?
I was mostly just thinking a file that cgos looks for that includes bot names and the preferences. The don't play list would need obvious restrictions like what you've already suggested. A preferred opponent was intended more to get additional games against a particular bot in a shorter period of time. I was thinking it'd be tough to do and would only affect the probability of playing a particular opponent. Honestly, I wouldn't care if these extra games didn't count for a rating. If the bias isn't too bad, maybe it wouldn't really matter that much. Here's a motivational example: I'm a bot owner who's noticed that against bot X, I lose 80% of my games because of some peculiar bug in my code. I fix that code and, like a well behaved CGOS participant, use a new login. I then have to wait for my rating to (somewhat) stabilize and then wait for the games against that bot to accumulate enough samples to be sure I fixed the problem. Letting new bots specify their starting rating may help this process.
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