Shunsuke SOEDA: <7ca74f090812180133w3fbf7820g7dac320fded34...@mail.gmail.com>: >Thank you for your suggestion David. > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM, David Fotland <fotl...@smart-games.com> >wrote: >> One option is to reduce the time limit from 40 minutes to 30 minutes to add >> another round. You can seed a swiss competition so it is likely that the >> best programs will meet in the last round. >Well, we have thought of making the games shorter, but we were concerned of >the effect it might give to the results of the tournament. >#I understand that shorter games will work against MC based programs. > >If 40 minutes is too long for most programs, we would certainly like to move to >shorter games.
I asked a stuff to make 40 min to 30 or 20 min but it's hard to accept because: 1) For the exhibition, 40 min (or longer) time control would be better. 2) It may take long time to tune (classical) programs up for a time control. (I'm not sure about this because I have few experiments on classical programs. I guess David knows well.) 3) Forcing participants to prepare two versions, one for 40 min and the other for 30 or 20 min is not a good idea. Then, single time control, 40 min SD, is used for all the games through the tournament. BTW, I believe 40 min SD gives MC programs some advantage. -Hideki -- g...@nue.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kato) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
