John Fan wrote: > I do not have a 19x19 bot right now. But I found that fast engines > have to wait for slow engines is kind of boring. For example, if a > majority of engines finish the game within 5 minutes and only one or > two engines will finish the games in 30 minutes. Then all the fast > engines have to wait the slow engines finish the game. Maybe we should > consider scheduling games for the available engines at every 10 > minutes while still leave the time limits for each game at 30 minutes? I think you missed my posts - that's exactly what is planned. Essentially, there are 2 schedules running concurrently - a slow one and a fast one. The fast round is like a heartbeat - it is scheduled one after another. If your bot is not playing in a slow game it can play in the next available fast game. It will not have to worry about missing the next slow round either - the server will always wait for the current fast round to complete before scheduling a slow round.
In this way, your bot can play in ALL slow round matches and yet still stay busy playing rated games when it's slow games finish early. More than likely, I would have 2 independent rating system - one for fast play and one for slow play. There would be an anchor player who plays the same regardless and would play in both "sections." So you can expect your fast play rating to be less than your slow play rating if your program is scalable. Each program will choose which types of games it's interested in playing - slow, fast or both. So if you are not interested in slow games you can choose to only play at the fast time control. Some bots may choose to not play in the fast games. - Don > > On Jan 8, 2008 4:06 PM, David Fotland <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Then 15 minutes should be good. We want the anchor to play at the > same > strength as before. > > David > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:computer-go- > <mailto:computer-go-> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On > Behalf Of Alain Baeckeroot > > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:40 PM > > To: computer-go > > Subject: Re: [computer-go] How to get more participation in > 19x19 CGOS? > > > > Le mardi 8 janvier 2008, Don Dailey a écrit: > > ... > > > On 19x19 it might be 30 minutes per side like we have now, with 5 > > > minute games for the fast time control. We would probably > have to > > > work it out so that program like gnugo would be able to handle > the > > fast > > > time control at their standard settings. > > > > > > > At level 10, gnugo might need more than 10 min for some games (with > > lots > > of possible ataris or kos). > > At level 0 (with tons of really ugly moves, and "only" 2 stones > weaker > > on kgs) > > 5 min should be ok. > > > > I think adding handicap to 19x19 is really a needed feature. > > Alain > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > computer-go@computer-go.org <mailto:computer-go@computer-go.org> > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > <http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/> > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org <mailto:computer-go@computer-go.org> > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
