I don't seriously plan to do this. However, if I did each bot could choose whether to sit out certain rounds.
- Don On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:31 -0400, George Dahl wrote: > One thing to consider is that for some bots it may be very very hard > to change the board size. My (as yet incomplete) bot will be like > this. It will require thousands of CPU hours to adapt itself to a new > board size so I want to work with as few board sizes as possible since > I need to collect training data for each one. > - George > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:51 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/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
