Re: [computer-go] Fourth KGS tournament: results

[David G Doshay <ddoshay@xxxxxxx>]

On 12, Jul 2005, at 6:34 AM, Nick Wedd wrote:

> I am unsure whether it was right of me to enter a version of GNU Go 
> myself.  Reasons in favour:
>   The more entrants, the better
>   People like to see their bots compete against GNU Go
>   It is no extra work for me, my PC is connected anyway
> Reasons against:
>   The GNU Go was eight months old, a recent one would play better
>   As organiser, I ought not to help a program like this
> I will welcome views on this, particularly from GNU Go developers.
I did not see any problem with it. All of your "for" reasons are very 
sensible.

With respect to your reasons against, it would be up to the GNU Go  
developers
to get a pre-release copy of the code to you. I think if you as 
organizer want to
enter a public domain program, then doing it with the latest full 
release is the
right thing to do. I would have found it odd if you went to the trouble 
to download
and build the latest development version. I personally do not see how, 
as the
organizer, you "helped" this program. You just met your own needs and 
the
perceived desires of others as explained in the "for" list. There were 
no other
GNU-alike programs asking for the slot, so I do not see that your 
action had
the effect of excluding anyone.

Cheers,
David


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