Re: [Bug-gnubg] Computer Olympiad

[Joseph Heled]

Hi Frank,

On 6/21/07, Frank Berger <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> > I am sure this Olympiad thingy is real fun,
> yes it is. Especially due to Nardy sparkling humor we had a lot of
> good laughs. And there are a lot of programms there and a lot of
> events especially for chess and GO at other places. I feel it would
> be a shame if BG would't be there, although the number of attending
> programms is not satisfying. I personally would much prefer 6-8
> programms even if this means more time and a smaller prob to win.
>
>
> > but I still hope that at
> > that day and age we can organize a serious and meaningful match
> > between the two, if a match is what we want.
> I guess under the existing circumstances this is already pretty good
> for a live event. I guess only a few can afford to spend more then
> 3-4 days including the travel for a fun event. Naturally it doesn't
> mean anything for judging which bot is better (at least not if the
> difference is so small as it is between BGB and GNU).
>
> A longer series of matches is naturally much better suited for that.
> There was a longer series just finished and I'm sure that the results
> will be published in the next few days. I guess at least some people
> will be astonished.... :)

This is a cryptic remark. longer series of what?

> > I suspect that it would be close to impossible to determine which is
> > better in a match, ans even a 100 difference in rating may require
> > tens of thousand of matches if not more.
> I guess with a 100 points it will take less matches (and I'm too lazy
> to take the Fibs-calculator for that right now), but I'm pretty sure
> that BGB, Gnu and S4 have less than 20 rating points between best and
> worst so we need a pretty large number for a statistical result. The
> rollout I mentioned above started in November and was on 2-3 PC so
> besides the benchmark from Michaal Depreli it will be the most
> significant test so far.
>
>
>
> > But we can make a start, assuming BGBlitz can be driven by a command
> > line/script, and arrange a running ongoing match. I can even find now
> > some time on the university machines, but very limited time as I am
> > consumed in my PhD.
> I think Dueller is already well suited. It talks to Gnu by CLI and to
> BGB via socket (which is IMHO superior because it could run on a
> different box) so anyone could do a long rollout (you don't need a
> BGB licence for the dueller stuff)

Thanks, Frank. Does Dueller and BGB run on Linux. If I wanted to,
could I set an ongoing match?

-Joseph


> ciao
> Frank