Re: [computer-go] KGS Tournaments: Cheating

[Bill Shubert <wms@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For cheating, it seems we could have two "kinds" of tournaments.
Tournaments can serve several purposes:
     1. Determine whose program is officially "the best"
     2. Give authors a chance to see their program played a lot of other
        programs, including getting a rough idea of what your strong &
        weak points are
     3. Share ideas and have fun with other people in the computer go
        community
For items 2 and 3, cheating isn't much of an issue. If one or two
programs in the tournament cheat, so what? You still get a good idea of
why other programs beat you, you still get to meet & talk with other
computer go programmers.

So maybe have fairly frequent (monthly or whatever) "casual" tournaments
would be a good idea, where people go on the honor system, then have
less frequent (annual maybe) but more-important "serious" tournaments
that make a real attempt to weed out cheaters through TP's or requests
of search results or whatever.

Does that sound like a reasonable idea?

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