> I agree with David. Have one time control per board size. > > I like the 5-minute controls for 9x9. You can take your program > down for extensive offline testing and still get 100 games per day. > That is far more data than you can analyze. Still, the speed is > fast enough for ratings to stabilize in a day or two.
The argument for longer time controls is that it encourages the development of new algorithms. New algorithms are usually slower. It might take 10 man hours to quickly code up a new idea. Sure we can optimize it to run 10 times quicker, but that takes another 90 man hours. We want to see how well an idea works before spending all that effort. If the same bot plays both 5 minute games and 20 minute games, and the server can show different ratings for each "venue", it would show how well that program's algorithms scale. Darren P.S. I'm not competing any time soon, so this cannot really count as a vote for longer time controls. -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/gobet/ (Shodan Go Bet - who will win?) http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (Multilingual open source semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
