Re: [computer-go] Time constraints for computer Go

["Frank de Groot" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "David Fotland" <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

But it is a real issue, so I restricted the top level to play a game in an
hour on the typical 400 MHz machine available when version 11 shipped.

Please tell us the adress of the byte in the MFOG versions that we have to
modify to get a higher level..
Better still release a patcher for every version you made and put it freely
downloadable on your website.

That you have dumb customers is not the best reason to cripple your software
to your smart customers.
You could make a setting: "Unreasonably long thinking time - use only after
2010!" :)
Or put the min/max/average time per move/game (estimation) behind the level
so that nobody CAN complain and if they do they are raving madmen and
deserve to be shot.

It means that if I own a powerful PC in 8 years and Go software plays much
stronger, I have to buy a new MFOG because you have deliberately dumbed down
the program, so I need to pay you again if I want a  version that uses the
extra CPU power/my extra time :(

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