Maybe some day computer go will reach the same level of "maturity" as computer chess and we will need safeguards against all sorts of churlishness. But so far, CGOS is very civilized.
I favor encouraging people to make their bots resign, but not penalizing those who don't. The MC programs are dominant enough already. It was utterly trivial to make my MC program resign from a lost position: maybe 3 lines of code. On the other hand, I have a neural net bot which has no concept of gobal score and just looks for good moves. There's no way I'm going to bother modifying it to know when to resign. I'd have to graft a whole new engine on top of it. It would be like adding an air conditioner to a bicycle. The neural net isn't as strong as a good MC program but it's stronger than a lot of bad ones. And, with the right time limits, it would probably beat all of them. :) The TT rules make it easy for different algorithms to compete. I'd much rather see different time rules (like Fischer) than backing away from TT scoring. - Dave Hillis ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com
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