In message <[email protected]>, David Doshay
<[email protected]> writes
I agree completely that the arguments seemed more like stubborn
resistance than reasonable objections, but these are the reasons
given for keeping bots from routinely entering human tournaments.
There were references to the opinion that the AGA has "the gold
standard" in rating schemes, and that online forums like KGS are
not as reliable. It still seems to me that KGS ratings are a good first
guess at a rating. I found it interesting that I had not been in an
AGA tournament for 18 years, was rated 10 kyu way back then,
but my badge at the Congress in Portland said 1 kyu. That 1 kyu
rating surely did not come from tournament play!
The Cotsen Open has a pretty good way of dealing with the other
reason (people travel to play other people) in that they announce
that a program will be playing in a bracket, and allow any player to
request *in advance of the pairings being determined* that they not
be paired against a computer program.
In about 1990, I arranged for a bot (HandTalk) to play in the Oxford
tournament, a three-round McMahon like many British tournaments.
I received no complaint from anyone obliged to play it. But after the
event, I received instructions from the British Go Association not to do
it again - they had had complaints from players who feared they might
have been obliged to play it.
I think these people would have an even stronger case nowadays, now that
bots have no novelty value, and anyone who wants can easily play one on
a server.
Nick
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