Re: [computer-go] how to have a computer go tournament?

[Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <6.1.2.0.2.20050120201503.08538c00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ray 
Tayek <rtayek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> hi, we have the cotsen open go tournament usually every year here in 
> los angeles. i suggested to eric that he entertain the idea of having 
> some kind of computer go tournament or maybe even having the programs 
> somehow play in the handicap section of the tournament after seeing the 
> post here on: "
> IKAT-SIKS Symposium 'Go at the frontiers of AI' ". and forwarding it to 
> him. he requested some ideas on how this might work.
>
> i have no clue, not having ever seen a computer go tournament  and so i 
> am requesting your advice. frankly it sounds like a big hassle, but 
> maybe somebody has it down to a science? i don't know where the authors 
> of any of the programs live, but maybe there are some near la? is it at 
> all feasible to have human vs computer play in an event like this? 
> unfortunately this is an aga tournament and so there are a lot of brain 
> damaged rules, but maybe they need not all apply to the handicap 
> section (don't  know). perhaps there is some way to start out small?
>
> being a programmer and a go player i really would like to see progress 
> in the programs, so even a demo between two programs that could be 
> viewed on a projector would be a start (albeit a minuscule one). if any 
> of this could be introduced into the tournament, we could just improve 
> on it each year.
Running a computer-Go event is not difficult.  The hardest bit may be 
getting hold of computers for the programs to run on - if you can find a 
sponsor to lend you these you are most of the way there.

In 1996 I allowed a computer program to enter the Oxford Go Tournament. 
It was only there to make the numbers even - it played in those rounds 
in which there would otherwise have been an odd number of players.  Even 
so, I received some complaints about it, and was asked not to do this 
again.

http://www.intelligentgo.org/en/computer-go/events/past.html lists past 
computer Go tournaments.

Nick
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