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omar
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #75 on: Mar 12th, 2009, 11:04am » |
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on Mar 12th, 2009, 9:05am, Janzert wrote:Omar, if you have a chance to run any more non-tournament games on the CC servers and are looking for matchups to try, I would be interested in seeing a few more Badger-OpFor games.
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Sure. I'll run one tonight.
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #76 on: Mar 12th, 2009, 2:27pm » |
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Congratulations to Jdb and Clueless on being the 2009 Computer Championship winner.
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #77 on: Mar 12th, 2009, 2:28pm » |
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on Mar 12th, 2009, 11:04am, omar wrote:
Sure. I'll run one tonight.
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Thanks.
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #78 on: Mar 12th, 2009, 2:35pm » |
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Congratulations to jdb from me as well.
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #79 on: Mar 12th, 2009, 4:34pm » |
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TD congratulations to jdb and clueless. I also recognize 99of9 and GnoBot for a similarly impressive showing. These bots really improved this year. Enough so that people are talking about when a bot might win the Challenge.
Quality of play was quite good from the other bots in this tournament making it what I consider the best WCC so far. Thanx again to all our bot developers.
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #80 on: Mar 12th, 2009, 5:28pm » |
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Yes, well done to all the entrants, and special congrats to jdb. I think both clueless and gnobot will find winning much harder when opfor and bomb go parallel. And if badger's rate of improvement continues, it will be knocking over the challenge by next year  .
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #81 on: Mar 13th, 2009, 7:39am » |
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Congratulations Jeff (jdb); you've done an increadible job of improving clueless this past year. Congratulations also to all the other developers for making significant progress on the bots. This year reminds me the most of 2004 when the bots Occam and Bomb made such unexpected progress in just one year.
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #82 on: Mar 13th, 2009, 10:59am » |
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Perhaps it is time that Bot_Clueless gets a new name. I know it was a name created in jest, but to have Arimaa's top rated bot named "Clueless" is a little self-defacing to the great game of Arimaa.
We should have a rename "Clueless" contest...
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #83 on: Mar 13th, 2009, 12:01pm » |
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on Mar 13th, 2009, 10:59am, mistre wrote:Perhaps it is time that Bot_Clueless gets a new name. I know it was a name created in jest, but to have Arimaa's top rated bot named "Clueless" is a little self-defacing to the great game of Arimaa.
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I think it's a terrible idea. It's confusing (just imagine the myriads of newcomers that will have to be explained that what seems to be two different bots are actually the same), It comes at a bad time (I mean you don't change the name of a product when it's at its peak) and also it assumes that the people that play Arimaa are too dumb to appreciate the delightful irony of its name.
Besides, it's always in good taste to be unassuming when you are the greatest (Piece of advice that I promise to follow the day that happens to me). 
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #84 on: Mar 13th, 2009, 2:31pm » |
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maybe...but im not sure it is the same bot, its improvement has been so dramatic since the last CC maybe it should signify this new era of intelligence, dare i say that, with a more appropriate name
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #85 on: Mar 13th, 2009, 2:52pm » |
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on Mar 13th, 2009, 10:59am, mistre wrote:| We should have a rename "Clueless" contest... |
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Well, since the "Gno" in GnoBot means "enlightened", i.e. the opposite of clueless, there is an elegant solution. Whichever bot wins the playoff will thenceforth be called GnoBot, and whichever bot loses will rightfully deserve the name clueless.
Or, better still, we could rank the names of all the Computer Championship entrants from most intimidating to most humble, and then re-assign all the names in order of tournament results. I think order of intimidation of names is approximately
GnoBot
Badger
sharp
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so the old clueless gets to be Gnobot, the old Gnobot gets to be Badger, etc. on down to the old Rat getting assigned to be clueless.
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #86 on: Mar 13th, 2009, 3:00pm » |
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OpFor's post-tournament victories over Badger make it seem rather like the "cycle" in the 3rd-4th-5th place finishers was actually a mild fluke, and the true order of strength was
1. clueless
2. GnoBot
3. OpFor
4. bomb
5. Badger
Just by coincidence, that was the order in which they were seeded. Hmmmm
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #88 on: Mar 13th, 2009, 11:05pm » |
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on Mar 13th, 2009, 2:31pm, Tuks wrote:| maybe...but im not sure it is the same bot, its improvement has been so dramatic since the last CC maybe it should signify this new era of intelligence, dare i say that, with a more appropriate name |
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Maybe they should have renamed the Titanic "Down Under"...
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Re: 2009 Computer Championship
« Reply #89 on: Mar 13th, 2009, 11:48pm » |
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on Mar 13th, 2009, 11:05pm, Arimabuff wrote:
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Hey! No fobbing off overconfident failures on Australia. 
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