Re: computer-go: Computer Go Tournament Program

[John Tromp <tromp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 06:21:45PM +0200, Robert Jasiek wrote:
> 
> 1) Unless four successive passes have been made, if both programs 
> agree by submitting the same score with their successive passes
> to the program arbiter and if both programmers agree that the

if programs agree, then that's it.
the programmers have nothing to do with it, and should
not be allowed to interfere with their program's operation.

> program arbiter displays both scores submitted by both programs
> correctly and the prior handling by the arbiter program is 
> correct, then the final result is given by those agreeing
> scores.

> 2) Otherwise if four successive passes have been made, then the
> arbiter program submits a score to both programmers and if

this is pretty pointless; it only comes to 4 passes if the 1st two
had disagreeing scores. since neither program attempts to improve
their score by making a move on their next turn, they implicitly
accept the decision to score the board as-is.

why do you want to give programs a chance to disagree with the
plain and obvious??

regards,
-John