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Re: [computer-go] how to use GTP in place of GMP

Richard,

Your argument isn't  really valid, ANY computer based  time control is
in some  sense arbitrary.  I have  a program that  ALWAYS plays better
when given more time.  Allowing  1 hour per move unfairly penalizes it
when it can do much better with 1 day per move.

Whatever  time  contol  is  chosen  is fair  to  all  participants  if
announced in advance and you are given a choice to compete or not.

And  if your  program really  does  need a  lot more  time than  other
programs, why is being fair based on your needs?

I'm not  saying this because I have  a fast program, because  I have a
very slow program.  I test a  lot against gnugo which makes moves very
quickly.  I can win almost half the games when I give my program about
10 minutes  per move (but the games  take way too long.)   Can I claim
that any tournament  that doesn't let me think 10  minutes per move is
unfair?

- Don





   William Harold Newman wrote:

   > Another possibility, perhaps only marginally practical now,
   > but probably more practical in ten years, might be to play games with
   > an average time allowance so short (perhaps 250 milliseconds per move?
   > 150?) that humans can't react fast enough to be helpful.

   Hmmm.   Not merely impractical, but highly unfair to my program,
   which has to do some disk access, because the pattern database is
   too large to fit into memory.  That disk access makes my program
   slow, and your proposal punishes me for that.

   Is such a program to be disqualified, just because it's "slow"
   in your opinion?

   -- 
   Richard L. Brown             Office of Information Services
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