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 >> -- >> Nick Wedd >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go -- Łukasz _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
