Is there a reason why we need to decide, in advance, which of these many candidates should be the anchorman? If we set up a whole swathe of them, surely a week of random even games answers many of these questions and gets us well on our way to a stable basis for a 19x19 competition? Maybe after the first 100 games between each pairing we can even play at random handicaps. I realise that there are questions that even this will not answer, but at least we will have numbers to argue over.
I suggest: a) everyone who has knows of a reasonable contender for the role posts a URL and details of how to set it up. b) those of us who have access to a machine that can reasonably run a go player for a week offer to host / run one of these c) once the resource constraints become clear it may be possible to host more than one player per machine. I'm more than happy to volunteer a machine week for such a purpose, and a couple of hours to set a player up. Unfortunately my own computer-go player will probably not be robustly playable in time. cheers stuart
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