Hi Nick, Ah so that is possible! As I wrote in my previous e-mail that was not the case in ~2012. Can you persuede them to create a rated account for my program Stop? On cgos it has a rating of 618.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 01:38:08PM +0100, Nick Wedd wrote: > Hi Urban, > > As a general guideline for how strong a bot must be to enter these events, > I say it should > only enter if it has a reasonable chance of beating GNU Go, which at KGS 7k > is weaker > than any of the regular players. If you have implemented kgsGtp, you could > run your bot > on KGS against human players to see how strong it is - if you want "rated > bot" status for > a stable version of it, I can encourage the admin who can assign this > status. > > Best wishes, > > Nick > > On 31 March 2015 at 13:00, Urban Hafner <cont...@urbanhafner.com> wrote: > > > Thank you for organising this for so many years, Nick! I think the email > > is a bit wrong though. > > > > Here's the link to the actual tournament: > > http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=955 > > > > It's also not 19x19, but (at least according to the KGS page) it's 13x13. > > :) > > > > Now on to my actual question: Are any of the other developers of new bots > > interested in joining? I JUST got around to implementing UCT and it would > > be rather boring to enter if I know with 100% certainty that I will loose > > all my games. > > > > Urban > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Nick Wedd <mapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> The April KGS bot tournament will be this Sunday, April 5th, starting at > >> 08:00 UTC and ending by 14:00 UTC. It will use 19x19 boards, with time > >> limits of 9 minutes each plus fast Canadian overtime, and komi of 7.5. > >> There are details at http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=95 > >> <http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=942>5 > >> > >> I apologise for the short notice. March seems to have passed unusually > >> fast. > >> > >> Please register by emailing me, with the words "KGS Tournament > >> Registration" in the email title, at mapr...@gmail.com . > >> > >> -- > >> Nick Wedd mapr...@gmail.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Computer-go mailing list > >> Computer-go@computer-go.org > >> http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Blog: http://bettong.net/ > > Twitter: https://twitter.com/ujh > > Homepage: http://www.urbanhafner.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Computer-go mailing list > > Computer-go@computer-go.org > > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > > > > > -- > Nick Wedd mapr...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go Folkert van Heusden -- Ever wonder what is out there? Any alien races? Then please support the seti@home project: setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +31-6-41278122, PGP-key: 1F28D8AE, www.vanheusden.com _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
