[computer-go] CGOS Monte Carlo Simulations

[Don Dailey]

I expect most programmers to change the name if the program changes.
My recommendation is to have a base name and append versions with a
hyphen like:  Lazarus-1.0  Lazarus-1.1 etc.

- Don


On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 01:11 +0200, sylvain.gelly at m4x.org wrote:
> > > Or if you think it's right - restart it under a new name such as
> > > myCtest-2   or something like that.
> >
> > That is part of the test. I want to see how long it will take.
> > It took about 120 games to increase from 870 to 980.
> 
> In my opinion, keeping the same entry to test another program is not so good. 
> First it will take a long time to converge, but it also changes all the other 
> program ratings (because they loose against a bad rated bot). Futhermore, the 
> cross table are no meaningful. So the consequences are not only for your bot, 
> but also all the other bots.
> Always using another name seems to me a better solution, even if it implies a 
> lot of entries (like the one for MoGo :-( ). But the non used entries are not 
> displayed after a while.
> 
> Sylvain
> 
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