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(Message started by: 99of9 on Jan 5^th, 2004, 11:00am)

Title: Robot Tournament
Post by 99of9 on Jan 5^th, 2004, 11:00am

Best wishes to Occam and Bomb (and Haizhi?).

I just hope GnoBot doesn't make too much of a fool of itself!

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by fotland on Jan 7^th, 2004, 12:13am

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.

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by 99of9 on Jan 7^th, 2004, 3:24am

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 :-) ???

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by 99of9 on Jan 7^th, 2004, 4:52am

on 01/07/04 at 00:13:00, fotland wrote:

It's too bad the games are 8 am GMT, since I will be
asleep.

Yes, that is a bit of a difficult time for the american viewers! I would have thought 8pm GMT would suit most people better?

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by MrBrain on Jan 7^th, 2004, 3:34pm

Yes, that is quite unfortunate, since robots can play at any time, but people usually must sleep during the night. :(

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by 99of9 on Jan 13^th, 2004, 5:31am

The third game hasn't happened yet???

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by MrBrain on Jan 13^th, 2004, 4:04pm

Yeah, what's up with that? It still has 3 am ET for the game time.

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by MrBrain on Jan 14^th, 2004, 7:48am

Now the games are being played out of order. Any chance they can be moved to different times so we can watch as well?

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by 99of9 on Jan 14^th, 2004, 3:26pm

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.

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by MrBrain on Jan 15^th, 2004, 7:15am

No, they skipped a couple of games. Now everything's out of whack.

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by 99of9 on Jan 15^th, 2004, 11:21am

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.

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by MrBrain on Jan 15^th, 2004, 1:10pm

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.

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by MrBrain on Jan 16^th, 2004, 8:56am

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!

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by 99of9 on Jan 16^th, 2004, 10:45am

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.

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by MrBrain on Jan 16^th, 2004, 2:23pm

(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!

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by JeroenDonkers on Jan 18^th, 2004, 1:26pm

Dear American Arimaa lovers,

I am sorry if I kept you awake all night. I was
asked to operate and arbiter (on behalf of the ICGA) the Arimaa matches. I live in Maastricht in the Netherlands and I scheduled the games in such way that they coincided with my working hours.

Nevertheless, the match took me also some time at night since problems occured in one of the bots and in the Arimaa environment. The match stopped for two days. That is why the last three matches were played
in a hurry: to be ready at the originally scheduled time.

Jeroen Donkers
Universiteit Maastricht
The Netherlands

Title: Re: Robot Tournament
Post by omar on Jan 20^th, 2004, 8:05pm

Sorry guys, Im still learning how to cordinate these events as I go. Next year I will try to setup the bot games at a time that is more convienient for everyone.

Omar