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

[David G Doshay <ddoshay@xxxxxxx>]

On 23, Jan 2005, at 3:18 PM, Nick Wedd wrote:

> If you do ask people to play against computers, how, mechanically, 
> will you do it?  The easy way is to expect the human to sit at the 
> screen, and use the mouse to make their moves.  Many people claim they 
> play worse under such conditions (I am 2k on the EGF scale, 7k on 
> KGS).  The formal way is to use a real board and real clock, and have 
> an operator transfer moves from board to computer and back.  You will 
> need volunteer operators for this, but it may make the human opponents 
> feel better about it.
What makes sense to me as a computer Go programmer is to insist that 
the author or their approved agent be there to transfer the moves to 
and from the computer and the human player plays on a board just like 
normal. In this case the author of the program cannot blame a 
"volunteer" for a misplayed move, either from the board into the 
computer or from the computer onto the board. I think that if the 
computer gets out of sync with what is on the board the program must 
forfiet.

If you have something like this over the summer I will do my very best 
to be there with SlugGo and hopefully the referee code and a referee 
PC.

I think that this sounds wonderful.

Cheers,
David


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