On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Nick Wedd <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/07/2012 10:48, Rémi Coulom wrote: >> >> Why truncate to [-50..50] ? > > > Assume that the event attracts some reasonably good programs, and > some poor programs. > > For games between good programs, the winning margin will almost > always be in the range [-50..50], so truncation makes no difference. > For games between good players and poor players, the range will > often be outside this range; but exactly how far outside will be > determined by the blunders of the weak program, not by the skill > of the strong one. So it is better not to attach weight to the > margins of these unbalanced games. > > Whether a bot loses to CrazyStone by 10 points or 20 tells us more > about its skill than whether it beats break by 100 points or 200.
Exactly that. In short to reduce noise from weak programs living with their groups or not. > > Nick > > > > >> >> On 10 juil. 2012, at 22:20, Łukasz Lew wrote: >> >>> Fellow Go enthusiasts, >>> I would like you invite you to: >>> >>> Kaś Cup - a peculiar computer Go tournament. >>> >>> There will be prize pool of total 100$, yay! >>> It will take place on 5th of August on KGS. >>> >>> The peculiarity will come from the scoring method. >>> While this will be a Round Robin, the score for each game won't be +-1 >>> point, >>> but the exact result of the game truncated to the [-50 .. 50] interval. >>> >>> One last rule is that participants may not use more than 4 cores of CPU >>> power. >>> >>> Nick kindly agreed to organize and look after the tournament for which >>> I am grateful. >>> Also he is in charge of choosing a ruleset and time settings. >>> >>> Thank you and let us know if you will participate. >>> Łukasz >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > -- > Nick Wedd > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
