It is great to see computer players taking another step towards being first-class citizens of the go-playing world.
cheers stuart On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, David Doshay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While the mogo game and result is in the newspaper and keeping all of us > talking, there was another piece of progress in computer Go that took place > at the US Go congress that I think says more about the state of computer go > than the 9-stone handicap win. > > The day before the mogo match there was a meeting with a number of AGA > officials that Peter Drake and I attended. After much spirited, passionate, > and strongly opinionated discussion, it has been decided that the AGA will > develop a plan to formally rate computer programs. The AGA feels that it has > the "gold standard" in rating systems, and previous to this point all games > against computer programs were explicitly not rated, and thus programs could > not get a rating. > > It is clear to me that the AGA is not going to drag its feet on this, and we > will be able to get reliable ratings before a year from now. Before folks > start rants about KGS ratings, lets make clear that while those are > interesting, the ease of making a new user name to either inflate or deflate > one's rating, and the ease of abandonment are very real issues that lead the > AGA to shrug off KGS ratings at this time. > > The exact details of the system are not yet specified, but I have been > assured by those with the power to make it happen that one year from now we > will have made the first important step towards the acceptance that programs > can play Go: they will have realistic and confirmed ratings. This is clearly > an important step towards more widespread acceptance of programs as serious > players. > > Cheers, > David > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
