[computer-go] 9x9 vs 19x19 (was: computer-go Digest)

[Don Dailey]

There has been much talk of a 19x19 CGOS and I have had people offer
systems to run it on.   I think Dave Dyer also would let us run a 19x19
version.

David Doshay has offered some space for it too - which is what I am
leaning
towards right now.   

I haven't implemented any of the handicap stuff, but CGOS would work
otherwise without any change.   Maybe that is good way to start.

I still have this horrible fear that 9x9 would suffer if several
programs moved over to 19x19.   Or perhaps BOTH would suffer from a lack
of a variety of competition.  

What might be useful is if there was an organized system of volunteers
who might be willing to run an instance of your program on request for a
few days?   

CGOS has not been particularly stable until just recently.   I fixed a
bug about 10 days ago and it has been running without a problem since
then, so I think it's reasonably stable now.    I was not willing to
think about another server until I can be sure that it's possible to run
for weeks in a row without bugs.   

But maybe the time is just about right.

- Don


On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:58 +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:24AM -0600, David Silver wrote:
> > But... in practice, I haven't got good results on larger boards. But  
> > to be honest, I've focused much more on 9x9, so perhaps I've missed  
> > some simple tricks.
> 
> I think there has been a marked change of interest since the
> introduction of UCT, and - around the same time - the cgos 9x9
> tournament page.
> 
> I understand that most people do their experiments on 9x9, the results
> are available so much faster. Still, I think it might be time to loosen
> the focus on 9x9, and have some more things happening on other sizes.
> 
> Would there be interest in a tournament system for 19x19 programs?
> Something like 30 mins / player sounds like a reasonable extrapolation. 
> 
> 
> -H
> 
>