An observation: When computers get strong enough to be a threat to the stronger players in these tournaments (which is probably already the case), tournaments will end up all being Class A. It will become a default. Even being called "Class A" (no computers) will make it the defacto standard. If you didn't know the difference would you rather tell your friends you were in a "class A" tournament or a "class C" tournament? They built some bias into the rules for this just by their naming convention. Of course it is their right to make the rules, this is just an observation.
Years ago in computer chess there were very similar rules about when a computer could participate and it was basically up to the discretion of the organizer - but the default policy was NO, it had to be stated if they were allowed. Almost immediately that closed the doors on computers playing at almost every event. I think there are 2 or 3 improvements here to what we had in chess, such as the possibility of Class C tournaments. I also like that computers should not be given additional consideration such as time-outs for hardware issues - that only serves to antagonize people who don't care about computers and have to suffer the scheduling consequences. I also agree that computers should not win prize money. To be perfectly frank about this my own experience with bringing my own chess program to tournaments has been rather negative and I tend to side with the human players who come expecting to play other humans even if they don't (or forget) to say so. So it makes sense (to me) that there should only be class A and class C tournaments. Class C tournaments should be organized specifically for computer participation with a kind of equal status between computers and humans. Humans can be enticed to come to these with the right incentives. One incentive is that computers can win prize money but that a portion (or all) of it is distributed to whoever played the computer. Don The TD should also announce the class of tournament before first round pairings. > 1. Class A: no computer entrants allowed. > 2. Class B: computers allowed, but humans have the right to refuse computer > opponents. > Humans wishing to do so must notify the TD before first round pairings. > 3. Class C: computers allowed; humans may not refuse computer opponents. > > Terry McIntyre <[email protected]> > > Unix/Linux Systems Administration > Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice. > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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