this would work best for a static board evaluator. a bot that retains state would likely be best served by using ram to retain state for a single game.
s. On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about rotating board sizes? Each round changes the board size. > Just an idea. > > One time long ago I considered making a server where there were no time > controls. You just played at whatever pace you choose. The server > would try to keep your bot busy playing many different games > simultaneously. Whenever your move is complete, the server hands you a > new position to compute which likely would be from some other game. > > Slower bots of course play less games. Scheduling for this is an > interesting problem, especially if avoiding mismatches is a priority. > > - Don > > > > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 13:09 -0700, Christoph Birk wrote: >> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Something that has worked well in other games would be to change the >> > third CGOS every month. Each month, the parameters would be announced >> > and the CGOS started empty except for the anchor(s). At the end of the >> > month, the bot at the top?would be?the winner. That would allow us to >> > experiment with novel settings like 11x11 boards or 20 seconds per game >> > that might be interesting for a short while but maybe not for long. It >> > can be a way of keeping things fresh and leveling the playing field a >> > little. >> >> It also would need a lot more maintenance ... >> IMHO there would not much to be learned from (eg) 11x11. >> I think of CGOS as a testing arena, not a monthly tournament >> to find the best program at some arbitrary setting. >> >> Christoph >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
