Re: [computer-go] blitz computer go (Re: Computer Go tournament atEGF)

[Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxx>]

   On 11, Feb 2005, at 6:32 AM, William Harold Newman wrote:

   > Before anyone gets too indignant about this: Of course I'm not arguing
   > that traditional tournaments should be changed to this format. That
   > is, this is not offered in the spirit of "a computer tournament should
   > have an unambiguous ko rule!" or "0.5 is too small a komi!" Instead,
   > it is in the spirit of "wouldn't it be interesting to ...

   And this is exactly the spirit in which I am proposing that there
   should also be tournaments with longer time constraints than
   the one hour that has often been used in the past.

   I think all 3 questions are interesting:

   What can a Go program do with 1 second per move?
   What can a Go program do with 1 hour per game?
   What can a Go program do if allowed ( ??? ) per game?


   Cheers,
   David


What a Go program can do or what YOUR Go program can do?

Unless everyone changed their program for such a long time control
tournament, this kind of test would only be highlighting what YOUR
program could do.  I doubt very many would be motivated to play in a
tournament designed to highlight the capabilities of your program.

I concede that such a tournament would probably benefit computer Go,
but only if many programmer were willing to work on the scalability of
their engines and it doesn't seem to be the current thinking.

- Don

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