On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:08 PM, David Fotland <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn’t get this post either.
>
> There needs to be a way to score a resign, perhaps give 50 points to the 
> winner.  MCTS bots that resign when they are only a few points behind will 
> skew the results in a random way.  It might be better to penalize the 
> resigner more than the gain given to the winner.

Good point. Resignation will be treated as 50/-50 result. So is
timeout and forfeit.

>
> With money involved, there needs to be a way to verify the number of cores 
> used.  I don’t know any reasonable way to do this.

The money isn't huge and I don't know any author of the program that
would attempt cheating here.

> I'm assuming that hyperthreading is OK, so a core i7 would count as 4 cores, 
> but use 8 threads.

Yes.

If you hesitate whether your program is worth to be modified, let me
tell you this:
If this tournament will be popular and considered fun / useful , I am
considering sponsoring another edition.
Also tunning for score is much quicker than for winning rate :)

>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Wedd
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 3:00 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Computer-go] Kas Cup
>>
>> Lukasz Lew has today posted a message to this list, which I have not
>> received.  I know he has posted it, I can see his posting in the list
>> archive, at http://dvandva.org/pipermail/computer-go/2012-
>> July/005168.html
>> I encourage you to read it, it is an invitation to a bot tournament
>> with bangneki-type scoring.
>>
>> This is the first time I have been aware of not receiving a message
>> which has definitely been posted.  I have checked my spam bucket.  And
>> I have read roveg's statement that nothing about the list has changed.
>>
>> Nick
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