|
||
|
Title: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by fotland on Nov 23rd, 2004, 3:36pm Bot_bomb has qualified now for the computer championship, and it will participate. What other bots are in? The bot list has many names on it, but there are only about 5 or 6 that seem to be under active devlopment. |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by 99of9 on Nov 23rd, 2004, 6:28pm Bomb is the only one that has fully qualified as far as I know. Gnobot needs one more human game. Not sure about Clueless. Loc seems active but needs many more humans. I'd say that's the field, but we won't know until december because some bot developers might be taking a low profile. The only other decent ones I know of are Occam and Aamira. Amira was interesting, but suddenly disappeared. Occam probably hasn't changed much since last year. |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by omar on Nov 27th, 2004, 3:03am I emailed the developers of bot_Amira a few weeks back to see if they are planning to participate, but have not heard back yet. |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by PMertens on Nov 27th, 2004, 10:16am I am planning on next year - it is very unlikely, that I will have a stable version running at the tournament. |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by maker on Nov 28th, 2004, 9:35pm Might be able to get one in next year, doubt that tod'll be done in time to qualify. Might have a working version(without any tweaking done) by middle of December. Definitely not enough time to qualify, as I see it, oh well. I plan to continue developing it, at least until I hit an impossible wall in the logic. I think that this bot'll be unlike anything that anyone has ever done before. Which is why it's taken me over two months longer than I thought and may progress even slower that current development(exploration of ideas and all, you know.) Well, have fun guys, if the semester has started by the time that the games are played, I'll definitely watch. maker |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by fotland on Dec 29th, 2004, 1:28am So, is it just Bomb, Clueless, and Firsttry/Gnobot? Has anyone else qualified or ported to the tournament server? Will it be legal to change the program between the Jan 4th computer-conputer submission and the February computer-human competition? |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by omar on Dec 29th, 2004, 11:45pm The 4 programs this year are: bot_Bomb, bot_GnoBot, bot_Clueless and bot_Loc. Although I think bot_Loc needs a few more human games. The program may not be manually altered during or between the challenge games. Also it cannot be manually altered between the computer championship games and the start of the challenge match. If requested the program can be allowed to run in between the games so that it can study the past games and modify itself as long as this is an automated function. |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by Fritzlein on Dec 30th, 2004, 12:00am If this is almost the last chance for modifications before the challenge match, then one thing I strongly urge for Bomb is to make sure the intial setup is random. I'm getting the same piece setup every time I play speedy, which is working fine for speedy at 15 seconds per move, but is a bad idea against a human opponent with plenty of time to think. |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by fotland on Dec 30th, 2004, 4:59pm Thanks. This is a bug. I added a feature to allow the random seed to be input, since Omar requires it for the tournament, and speedy is currently the tournament code, but I forgot to disable the seed option in the configuration file. |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by omar on Jan 24th, 2005, 6:56pm David I tried to email you this message earlier, but maybe my emails aren't getting through. Im posting it here also in case you happen to check: Before the postal tournament, download the current version of the Bot interface kit. This version supports the 'move' command so that the bot will exit after making one move and not wait around for the next move. For the postal tournament you don't want to use botman. Instead you want to start it like this: bot move 99of9 to have it make the move in the game against 99of9. It will connect to the game make the move if it is the bots turn and exit; otherwise it exits right away if it is not the bots turn. You can create a batch file to run it on all the games; like: bot move 99of9 bot move omar bot move Belbo Besure to setup Bomb's configuration to indicate how long it thinks about the move. Omar |
||
|
Title: Re: Who's in the 2005 computer championship? Post by fotland on Jan 24th, 2005, 7:06pm I tried to download the new bot interface kit last night, but the zip file was empty. Please email it to me. |
||
|
Arimaa Forum » Powered by YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.3.1! YaBB © 2000-2003. All Rights Reserved. |