[Computer-go] Could a 'doubling dice'** encourage early resignation by programs?

[Don Dailey]

I agree,  it's no longer go if you add this kind of extra gamesmanship on
top.

Of course it's sometime fun to talk about it as a kind of speculation.

Don


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:38 PM, David Doshay <ddoshay at mac.com> wrote:

> Yes, we could take on the rules from any one of a number of other games.
> Each would have some advantage, perhaps some disadvantage.
>
> But why?
>
> Rather than complicate the rule set to nudge our programs in one direction
> or another via a new reward function, why don't we just concentrate on
> trying
> to get them to play the game well? That seems hard enough to me.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
>
> On 27, Jan 2011, at 6:31 AM, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
>
> > Could a 'doubling dice'** encourage early resignation by programs?
> >
> > each program would have to forfeit a double game, if it played on and
> lost the game,
> > but could resign for a single loss.
> >
> > scores in earnest might need to be tallied in the public arena.
> > though one would hope that the  application designers.....
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Jonathan Chetwynd
> > http://www.peepo.com
> >
> > **as per backgammon, either  player can double, but then it is the
> opponent's  choice  to resign  or accept,
> > and to redouble at their discretion, though this aspect may be ott.
> > apologies if I missed the obvious,
> >
> > it seems I omitted the most severe error, playing on, when a game is
> lost.
> > in the thread: Are 4 'easy to avoid errors' common to all MC programs?
> >
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