At 03:33 PM 1/23/05, you wrote:
that may be hard. maybe mf and smart go authors would allow a representative to keep an eye on things. they seem robust enough to stand up to it.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 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...What makes sense to me as a computer Go programmer is to insist that the author or their approved agent be there...
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.that would be great! not sure when the tourny is yet. last year was sept 18-19: http://www.thelec.com/go.pdf
great. david f. has indicated that he is interested. maybe smart go's author would allow me to use my copy. this does not have to be official. i could just be sold as just an experiment or something. and with a small number of programs, we could play then off against each other more exhaustively than is normal. (let'em play all night sometimes, giving them lot's of time?)I think that this sounds wonderful.