[Computer-go] February KGS bot tournament: 19x19

[Nick Wedd]

In message 
<AANLkTinH+Pw5ZFLHnCTZRSWYg6FPnzyXhBN2_HHxQ9MO at mail.gmail.com>, 
Jean-loup Gailly <jloup at gailly.net> writes
>> indeed weak and new bots are particularly welcome.
>
>I fully agree for new bots. But for the others I'm curious: how many
>think it's a good idea to
>encourage several very weak bots, except one for parity? They are
>indeed very useful
>for debugging but this should be done on cgos not in a tournament.
>(Once again,
>new bots should be encouraged even if they are weak. My question only
>applies
>to the weak bots which never change.) The tournaments would be, at
>least for me,
>more interesting if we could have more challenging games and fewer
>boring ones.

My reason for encouraging IdiotBot and WeakBot50k is to provide 
milestones for newcomers to match themselves against.  The programmer of 
a new bot can set himself the target of beating IdiotBot, and then 
WeakBot50k.

For the "slow" tournaments which I will be running on KGS (there is one 
from March 20th-25th), weak bots will not be allowed.  I may define this 
by saying that entry is restricted to bots that have beaten WeakBot50k 
(or maybe SimpleBot) in a completed game in a regular KGS bot 
tournament.

Nick

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