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99of9
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #15 on: Nov 15th, 2005, 6:16pm » |
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Unfortunately even since he made that comment, someone mentioned that bomb has occasionally been playing a little strangely.
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BlackKnight
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #16 on: Nov 16th, 2005, 7:02am » |
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That is true. Even always strangely playing Loc won today against Bomb that finally even lost on time.
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omar
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #17 on: Nov 16th, 2005, 5:26pm » |
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I wonder how it will do against Bomb2005CC? I'll run a few games against it.
BTW I don't know if the bot developers know this, but you can start up the last years bots and have your current bot play against it. For example after starting up the last years bot, just type something like:
bot play bot_Bomb2005CC
at the command promt to have your bot play against it.
I just wanted to mention it in case someone didn't know.
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #18 on: Nov 16th, 2005, 9:43pm » |
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We now only have a few days left for bots to announce their availability. Has anyone emailed Haizhi yet? It'd be really great for his bot to take part - especially since there was an entire thesis written about it.
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BlackKnight
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #19 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 1:55am » |
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on Nov 16th, 2005, 5:26pm, omar wrote:
BTW I don't know if the bot developers know this, but you can start up the last years bots and have your current bot play against it. For example after starting up the last years bot, just type something like:
bot play bot_Bomb2005CC
at the command promt to have your bot play against it.
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Thanks a lot for that reminder.
Do you think it is difficult to extend the script in such a way so that "bot play bot_XXX2005CC" also wakes up that bot.
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omar
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #20 on: Nov 19th, 2005, 10:03am » |
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on Nov 17th, 2005, 1:55am, BlackKnight wrote:
Do you think it is difficult to extend the script in such a way so that "bot play bot_XXX2005CC" also wakes up that bot. |
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That should probably be done in a higher leve script. For example:
matchOnline bot_bomb 5
would start up bot_bomb and then start your bot to play against it; and would repeat this so that 5 games are played.
The matchOnline script would need to use something like wget to started up the specified bot.
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #21 on: Nov 19th, 2005, 11:04am » |
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What about this?
#!/bin/sh
for i in $(seq 1 $3);do
wget http://arimaa.com/arimaa/bots/$1/controlBot.cgi --post-data="side=$2&start=Start%20Bot" ;
sleep 3;
./bot play $1 &
done
Just save it in the directory where the "bot" script is as matchOnline. To use:
./matchOnline bot_Loc2005P1 w 3
This will play your bot 3 times, with Loc2005P1 playing gold.
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #22 on: Nov 19th, 2005, 11:42am » |
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on Nov 19th, 2005, 11:04am, nbarriga wrote:
Just 2 fixes:
./bot play $1 (without &)
and add rm -f controlBot.cgi
So the final version:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $(seq 1 $3);do
wget http://arimaa.com/arimaa/bots/$1/controlBot.cgi --post-data="side=$2&start=Start%20Bot" ;
sleep 3;
rm -f controlBot.cgi
./bot play $1
done
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BlackKnight
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #23 on: Nov 19th, 2005, 11:00pm » |
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Thanks a lot to both of you! :-D
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omar
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #24 on: Dec 20th, 2005, 12:45pm » |
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I've decided to postpone the start of the computer championship tournament by one week, since I will be out of the country between Jan 1st and Jan 15th and will not have regular internet access. I don't want to risk a technical problem occuring while Im unreachable. Three servers have to be running smoothly for the computer championship to run smoothly. So I think it's better to postpone it till Jan 16th. I think the tournament should still be able to finish before the end of January.
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99of9
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #25 on: Dec 20th, 2005, 2:26pm » |
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Sounds good. I don't think the computers will mind a packed schedule  .
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #26 on: Dec 22nd, 2005, 3:58pm » |
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When will we know the list of participants? Is it finalized on December 31?
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omar
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #27 on: Dec 26th, 2005, 8:58pm » |
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Looks like the bots this year are going to be:
Bomb, GnoBot, Clueless, Loc and Aamira
Haizhi had wanted to particpate also, but he said he recently got a new job and won't have the time to. I offered to waive the qualifying games and help him get the bot setup, but have not heard back yet. I would really like to see his bot play in the tournament also.
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Re: Computer Championship format for 2006
« Reply #28 on: Dec 29th, 2005, 5:14am » |
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Im going to have to change the start of the computer championship to Jan 18th, because I don't think I will be having regular internet access till then. Im still planning to finish the tournament before the end of January.
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