Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 05:07:03 12/13/03
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I think we agree more than disagree. A resign feature is, IMHO, an excellent idea. If Zappa ever plays in an event like RWBC or WBEC-Ridderkerk, it will have resign on so that it doesn't waste their CPU cycles. If Zappa was playing a human, I would set it to resign at -5 or so. And if Zappa's score was at -5, I think that it would have a _very_ small chance to win, and the game would be very boring to watch. And if I was playing a test game, I'd probably resign for Zappa. And if Zappa was playing in a computer-computer tournament with a manual operator, I'd resign at -5 so not to waste his time, or if it was the last game of the round, etc. So in 99.9% of the situations I agree with you. However, in the one corner case we are talking about (CCT6), none of those conditions apply. With a fully automated system, when the score reaches -5, I'll just minimize the window, and observe other players games/chat with the author/watch some anime/whatever. And I will never complain that someone else doesn't resign against Zappa. Because ultimately, its not over till the fat lady sings :) anthony P.S. there are numerous loopholes with forcing the program to resign at -10. The most obvious are "Report score as score / 1000" and "Report score as max(score, -9.99).
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