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omar
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #30 on: Jan 23rd, 2005, 2:46pm » |
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Yes, the rating is computed using the current rating at the end of the game; not the rating at the start of the game.
We are up to 15 players now.
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99of9
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #31 on: Jan 24th, 2005, 3:23am » |
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good luck all
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Fritzlein
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #32 on: Jan 24th, 2005, 9:07am » |
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Shouldn't the clock of the Gold player be started in each game where no moves have yet been made? I can understand having a short grace period, but the starting date of the tournament was publicized in advance, and already players have 1 day to move plus 14 days reserve time. It seems logical for the clocks to start ticking now for exactly the same reasons they will run throughout the rest of the game.
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99of9
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #33 on: Jan 24th, 2005, 4:59pm » |
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Love to have bomb fired up soon.
[edit: David, Omar just posted in the bot forum about how you have to configure this.]
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fotland
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #34 on: Jan 24th, 2005, 7:05pm » |
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I should have gotten the scripts installed and debugged last weekend, but I had a computer go deadline yesterday. I'll do it this evening after dinner.
I'm going to try to make it fully automated so bomb can think about 3 hours for each game.
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RonWeasley
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #35 on: Jan 24th, 2005, 7:59pm » |
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I didn't realize we were going to get howlers after every move.
I share my e-mail account with my twin brothers, Mum and Dad, little sister, and my git of a brother Percy. The flames are blocking the fireplace. Any way to stop e-mail notification?
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99of9
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #36 on: Jan 24th, 2005, 8:03pm » |
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Ron you could set up some rules in your mailbox to redirect all these messages to a separate folder. What mail client do you use?
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fotland
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #37 on: Jan 24th, 2005, 9:58pm » |
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Bomb is working now. It's automated, and will use 2 hours per move.
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fotland
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #38 on: Jan 25th, 2005, 1:25am » |
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In two hours it did 21 iterations, with a maximum depth of 29 steps. It won't look so deep in the middle game.
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99of9
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #39 on: Jan 25th, 2005, 4:35am » |
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Wow... we're in real trouble world! Make sure you concentrate hard in your bomb games!
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MrBrain
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #40 on: Jan 25th, 2005, 8:07am » |
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on Jan 24th, 2005, 9:07am, Fritzlein wrote:| Shouldn't the clock of the Gold player be started in each game where no moves have yet been made? |
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Yes, I agree completely. I have started the time on all of my gold games even though I won't have time to actually make any moves until later tonight.
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99of9
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #41 on: Jan 25th, 2005, 9:54am » |
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on Jan 25th, 2005, 1:25am, fotland wrote:| In two hours it did 21 iterations, with a maximum depth of 29 steps. It won't look so deep in the middle game. |
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Since I had the time to do it, I counted how deep I analysed one line of my last move against Paul. It got to a depth of 7 moves each (56 steps). But that was only one very slender variation... so chances are we will deviate within one or two moves. By the way Paul, if we follow all 14 moves... we end up equal but having exchanged a few pieces  . I'll let you know when we deviate, and publish my analysis.
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fotland
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #42 on: Jan 25th, 2005, 10:54am » |
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So people will still look much deeper. I'm getting a branching factor of just over 2x time per additional step searched. So each additional Arimaa move takes 10 to 20 times longer to search. With this search algorithm, bomb will never search 56 steps in the middle game.
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99of9
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #43 on: Jan 25th, 2005, 2:00pm » |
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I doubt I'm ever likely to again. It was too much effort . In most 1 minute games I estimate that I routinely search a depth of 12, and along some lines 16, but nearly never more.
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RonWeasley
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Re: Postal Tournament
« Reply #44 on: Jan 26th, 2005, 8:07am » |
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Thanx for the advice about e-mail, 99. I should have learned that as a second year, but classes were cancelled near the end of the term.
And I figure I look ahead about 6. Steps, that is. I bet by now you've figured that out.
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