[computer-go] KGS bot tournaments: poll

[Christoph Birk]

On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Nick Wedd wrote:
> The Formal/Open restriction was created to encourage commercial  
> programs to compete.  These programs' authors were wary of entering  
> them in events in which they might have to play a whole bunch of  
> GNU Go versions, so the Formal division was set up with the  
> restriction that no more than one copy of GNU Go (or of anything  
> else) could compete.  But this has had only limited success in  
> attracting entries from commercial programs.

So the commercial programs are not showing anyway, what about
the 2nd reason of having 2 division: how many GNUGO-clones are
there typically; would it really be a problem?

Christoph

ps. Like Jason I will send my vote separately, after the weekend.