neat! is this regularly exercised? :)

s.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, David Fotland <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> More from the 1988 AGA tournament rules...
>
> D. Classes of computer participation.
>
> There shall be three types of tournament with respect to participation by
> computer programs.
> 1. Humans only -- no computer programs may compete. This fact must appear
> clearly on all pre-tournament announcements.
> 2. Human right to refuse computer program as opponent.
>
> a. The right to refuse to compete against a computer program must be
> exercised globally, at the time of registration.
> b. The player may play the program if the alternative is a bye. However, in
> this case the computer is a competitor, and both will be scored accordingly.
>
>
> 3. Open - no right to refuse any opponent.
> a. Computer programs are entered as any other player, and have the same
> rights as any other plaer. Such rights will be asserted and exercised by the
> owner of the program.
> b. Tournament announcements must clearly state the conditions.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of steve uurtamo
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 6:21 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Computer-go] KGS highest rank Bot
>>
>> kgs recently had a tournament where bots were allowed to play -- it
>> was on nonstandard-sized boards, and zen did fantastically well,
>> taking second place in the 21x21 tournament, in both american/european
>> and asian/european divisions.
>>
>> there are also a stable of people throwing themselves at zen in the
>> "computer go" room on kgs, solidifying its rank at 5d (as it slowly
>> creeps toward 6d). (to be clear, this is the version playing at
>> roughly (15s?/move), which in my experience is at-speed or slower than
>> most non-tournament play happens in practice without a clock, so
>> totally fair for humans to play at). so even if it can't play in human
>> tournaments, everyone knows that it is at least as strong as the
>> strongest 5d's on KGS.
>>
>> i think that it'd be great if bots could play in the 19x19 tournaments
>> on kgs. that is a far cry from playing as an actual player over the
>> board on a regular basis at regular tournaments. does anyone have an
>> example of *any* game that existed before computers where computers
>> have been accepted/allowed to play as a regular practice (instead of
>> as a highly debated issue?).
>>
>> s.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Jouni Valkonen
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Ingo wrote: >The ranks you mention are from KGS. Is there something
>> like a
>> > KGS World Championship, let it be with or without prize money?
>> Winning such
>> > an online championship might be easier for a bot then winning "over
>> the
>> > board".>
>> >
>> > Is it allowed for gobots to participate to online Kgs tournaments? It
>> would
>> > very nice if they could. I think that there should be 2-4 places open
>> for
>> > gobots, because computer go is such an important aspect of go.
>> >
>> > Chessbots could participate into some offline tournaments until they
>> were
>> > too strong to play with humans. This is the best way to observe the
>> > development of gobots.
>> >
>> > -Jouni
>> >
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