Re: [computer-go] future KGS Computer Go Tournaments - two sections?

[Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <2100faf0b21a432f4492db06fb21ec23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David G Doshay 
<ddoshay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> On 9, May 2005, at 12:22 PM, Nick Wedd wrote:
>
> > As for "formal" and "casual" divisions - I have had two votes for 
> > (David Fotland and John Davies), and one against (delivered 
> > privately).  Any more votes?
> As the driving force behind SlugGo I would like to chime in, but I do 
> not yet understand some details about what you are proposing.
>
> SlugGo is clearly a program that uses GNU Go to generate move choices, 
> adding global lookahead that GNU Go does not do and including some 
> additional evaluation that GNU Go does not do. Where would we sit in 
> your proposed divisions?
I would like to see SlugGo playing in KGS tournaments, but I'm sorry, I 
won't be able to let it play in a "formal" division.  Or indeed, if we 
decide not to split the tournaments into divisions, to let it play at 
all in regular tournaments.  The same goes, in future, for the weaker 
GoFigure, and the much weaker DumbBot, two other "metaprograms" that use 
GNUGo, in various ways, for move generation.

But I would like to see SlugGo (and GoFigure, and DumbBot) playing on 
KGS.  I am sure people would like to watch it playing.  One possibility 
is to have them play in a "casual" division.  I don't know how you would 
feel about that, SlugGo won't get much of a challenge from the other 
players in the lower division.

Another possibility is to have a "slow" tournament.  The opponents that 
don't like playing against GNUGo derivatives would realise that a slow 
tournament was likely to attract SlugGo, and know to avoid it.  Can you 
remind me, what are the fastest time limits that SlugGo would be happy 
with?

Of course, if you wish you can let SlugGo play as a bot on KGS, outside 
a tournament, accepting challenges from allcomers.

Nick
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