[computer-go] KGS Tournaments: Uniqueness of players

[Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a human Go tournament, it is impossible (or at least impracticable) 
for one person to enter multiple times.  It is different for programs. 
It is still desirable not to have duplicate entrants.  However, it is 
not clear how to define duplicate entries.

I am therefore going to express a number of opinions (not all 
consistent), and hope that people cleverer than me can find a sensible 
way of defining "duplicate entries".

I think that three are around 30 bots registered on KGS at present, and
23 of these are builds of GNU Go.  I do not want more than one of these 
builds to enter any KGS Computer Go tournament.  Two non-GNUGo 
programmers have told me that they would not be willing to enter an 
event with more than one GNUGo competing.
    Some of these GNUGo bots may be straight builds, of various 
versions.  Some may have settings tweaked.  Some may contain significant 
new code.  I don't know, and it will not be easy for me to find out.
    If someone takes GNU Go and adds a module to it that makes it play 
better, I would not want to exclude the modified version.  But I assume 
that such a module will soon get added to the "official" GNU Go anyway?

David Fotland has not added GTP to MFoG.  If some other person adds GTP 
to MFoG, with David's permission, I would want it to be able to enter 
KGS events.  If two other people both do this, I would only want one of 
them to be able to enter - I think David should be able to decide which.

I would like SlugGo to be able to compete.  SlugGo contains GNU Go. 
Should SlugGo and GNU Go both be allowed to compete in the same event? 
Maybe GNU Go would not want to compete in an event with the slow time 
limits required by SlugGo?

Nick
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