I misread the prize pool. Thought it was $1,000 :) Should be fun. Count me in.
David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lukasz Lew > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] Kas Cup > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:08 PM, David Fotland <fotland@smart- > games.com> 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 > > > > -- > Lukasz > _______________________________________________ > 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
