Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:46:31 09/13/00
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On September 13, 2000 at 23:29:49, Bruce Moreland wrote: >Something I find confusing about this group is that there are a zillion >tournaments going on at all times, and if you look at the post titles, it's hard >to know if they are tournaments involving computers competing at some site with >their authors consent, human tournaments, or championships of someone's >basement. > >As far as I can tell, this is the championship of your basement, right? It's the *OFFICIAL* world championship of my basement. Actually, I think it is far more relevant than any of those ICCA thingies. They run so few games that the winner is almost a pure crap-shoot. By running at G/60 and playing 4 games for each round robin pairing, we will achieve _actual data_ with _actual relevance_ as to the approximate strength of the programs. Sort of like SSDF, but the error bars will be considerably larger. By the time the contest has completed, there will be about 650 games played between the programs in the 4 crown division, and well over 1000 games overall. My championship will not carry with it the prestige of the ICCA title, but the winner (and even more so the programs that did not win) will know far more about the strength of their programs than the data received from any contest with a tiny smattering of games by each program, often with only one color against a given opponent [or worse yet, with Swiss format affairs -- quite a few opponents not even attempted]. I usually have 4 or 5 machines going every night, with 4 games apiece as mediated by Winboard. The machines have to be PII 300 MHz or faster. Each program gets 32 megs of hash to work with.
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