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99of9
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Robot Tournament
« on: Jan 5th, 2004, 11:00am » |
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Best wishes to Occam and Bomb (and Haizhi?).
I just hope GnoBot doesn't make too much of a fool of itself!
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fotland
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #1 on: Jan 7th, 2004, 12:13am » |
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Thanks. Anything can happen in a tournament with such a small number of games. since no program has
100% perfect chance of beating another.
It's too bad the games are 8 am GMT, since I will be
asleep.
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99of9
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #2 on: Jan 7th, 2004, 3:24am » |
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Well, I'm just watching gnobby's first game, and it was going great, in a commanding position, and has just decided to throw away it's ELEPHANT!!!!!!!!!
So you're right, anything can happen  
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #3 on: Jan 7th, 2004, 4:52am » |
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on Jan 7th, 2004, 12:13am, fotland wrote:
It's too bad the games are 8 am GMT, since I will be
asleep.
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Yes, that is a bit of a difficult time for the american viewers! I would have thought 8pm GMT would suit most people better?
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MrBrain
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #4 on: Jan 7th, 2004, 3:34pm » |
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Yes, that is quite unfortunate, since robots can play at any time, but people usually must sleep during the night. 
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #5 on: Jan 13th, 2004, 5:31am » |
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The third game hasn't happened yet
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #6 on: Jan 13th, 2004, 4:04pm » |
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Yeah, what's up with that? It still has 3 am ET for the game time.
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #7 on: Jan 14th, 2004, 7:48am » |
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Now the games are being played out of order. Any chance they can be moved to different times so we can watch as well?
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #8 on: Jan 14th, 2004, 3:26pm » |
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They just skipped the game that didn't work (for whatever reason). I believe it will be rescheduled, so hopefully at least that one can be at a better time.
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MrBrain
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #9 on: Jan 15th, 2004, 7:15am » |
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No, they skipped a couple of games. Now everything's out of whack.
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #10 on: Jan 15th, 2004, 11:21am » |
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Both of Bomb's games with silver... apparently that was the source of the problem somehow.
Looks like you chanced upon the current postponed game just as I did... seems quite an open game, though Gnobby was stupid at the start.
David were you happy with getting one camel for a horse+dog? I personally don't think move 5b was good for bomb.
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #11 on: Jan 15th, 2004, 1:10pm » |
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Yeah, glad I happened to be in the gameroom when the game was underway, and very nice that it was during the day when I could watch. The games I really want to see are the bomb-occam matchups though. That's going to decide it.
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #12 on: Jan 16th, 2004, 8:56am » |
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Well, I missed both of the Occam/Bomb games. The ICGA decided to run both games one right after the other without any notice.  I must say that I was extremely disappointed with how this tournament was run.
Anyway, congratulations to David and to his robotic masterpiece Bomb!
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #13 on: Jan 16th, 2004, 10:45am » |
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One of them was approximately at the usual time, the other followed straight on, perhaps because we were behind schedule?
I think there were only one or two others (other than me) that saw any of these games at all.
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Re: Robot Tournament
« Reply #14 on: Jan 16th, 2004, 2:23pm » |
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(Copied from comment for game 5039)
I must say, however, that I was extremely disappointed in how this bot tournament was run (by the ICGA I understand). They seemingly gave no consideration whatsoever to any of the people who might have wanted to watch these games. Not only were all the games scheduled in the middle of the night for US residents, but then they didn't even follow that schedule, and started games at arbitrary times without notice. Very poor!
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