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omar
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2011 Computer Championship
« on: Jan 3rd, 2011, 7:33pm » |
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The qualifying period for bots is underway during the month of January. Bot developers should have their bots play against the benchmark bots.
Please keep in mind that when event games are in progress the bots on the server will be turned off. Start early so that you have enough time to complete all the games.
Also please try not to start more than one CC or Fast bot so that the server is not overloaded. If someone already has a CC or Fast bot running, don't start another CC or Fast bot.
Since there are 8 bots entered this year all bots will be in the WCC tournament and the qualifying period will determine the seeding for the bots. Best of luck.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #1 on: Jan 3rd, 2011, 8:09pm » |
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on Jan 3rd, 2011, 7:33pm, omar wrote:
Please keep in mind that when event games are in progress the bots on the server will be turned off. Start early so that you have enough time to complete all the games.
Also please try not to start more than one CC or Fast bot so that the server is not overloaded. If someone already has a CC or Fast bot running, don't start another CC or Fast bot.
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I will try to follow this requirement, but it may be hard to get many games done if only one CC/Fast bot can be running. Very often there are people playing these bots, especially now that some are trying to beat the advanced bot ladder.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #2 on: Jan 5th, 2011, 12:29am » |
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on Jan 3rd, 2011, 8:09pm, rbarreira wrote:
I will try to follow this requirement, but it may be hard to get many games done if only one CC/Fast bot can be running. Very often there are people playing these bots, especially now that some are trying to beat the advanced bot ladder. |
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Yes, this is going to be a bit problematic. I also have to run the qualifying games for the bots which have not changed since last year.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #3 on: Jan 5th, 2011, 6:03am » |
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http://arimaa.com/arimaa/wcc/2011/qual.htm
This is a nice link to see the qualification status. It seems to be missing a game between bot_marwin and bot_Sharp2010Blitz though (or maybe it's not updated very often?).
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #4 on: Jan 5th, 2011, 8:39am » |
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It's very considerate behavior to get in your qualifying games early. Last year we found that there wasn't enough incentive to start early, compared to the hope that some last-minute improvements would strengthen the bot and increase its score for starting later. Hopefully, even though the incentives seem tilted towards a later start, enough developers will be good citizens and start qualifying early to avoid a last-minute rush and the consequent server overload.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #5 on: Jan 5th, 2011, 11:35am » |
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on Jan 5th, 2011, 6:03am, rbarreira wrote:http://arimaa.com/arimaa/wcc/2011/qual.htm
This is a nice link to see the qualification status. It seems to be missing a game between bot_marwin and bot_Sharp2010Blitz though (or maybe it's not updated very often?). |
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It is updated once an hour.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #6 on: Jan 22nd, 2011, 9:22am » |
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I was wondering if the Computer Championship games will have the two-move delay as the human event games have. It would be nice to not have it if possible.
I don't think anyone will implement a speech recognizing/natural language interpreter in their bot in order to cheat, at least not anytime soon 
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #7 on: Jan 27th, 2011, 1:32pm » |
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Good suggestion. I've changed it to only use delays if one of the players is human.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #8 on: Feb 8th, 2011, 8:24pm » |
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Omar,
I see in the gameroom that you sent out the login information emails, but I don't seem to have received one yet.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #9 on: Feb 9th, 2011, 8:07am » |
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on Feb 8th, 2011, 8:24pm, Janzert wrote:Omar,
I see in the gameroom that you sent out the login information emails, but I don't seem to have received one yet.
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Yes, I had sent a message to all the bot developers about a week ago.
I've sent the message again through the forum private message system.
If anyone else did not get it, please let me know.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #10 on: Feb 11th, 2011, 3:54am » |
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It seems that developers allready have granted access to some machine to setup the bots. But there is no information on Arimaa page or forum about hardware that will be used for championship. If this information is already known, it would be interesting to see it. If hardware is not known yet, bot setup on other machine probably is redundant.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #11 on: Feb 11th, 2011, 4:23am » |
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on Feb 11th, 2011, 3:54am, foggy wrote:| It seems that developers allready have granted access to some machine to setup the bots. But there is no information on Arimaa page or forum about hardware that will be used for championship. If this information is already known, it would be interesting to see it. If hardware is not known yet, bot setup on other machine probably is redundant. |
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Since I have a login at the server, I checked the hardware: X3360 CPU @ 2.83 GHz, and 4 GB of RAM. This means higher RAM and an equal CPU compared to last year (the X3360 is a server version of the Q9550), so it should be pretty much the same to setup as last year.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #13 on: Feb 18th, 2011, 3:34am » |
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on Feb 12th, 2011, 7:51pm, omar wrote:
I believe you meant:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/challenge/2011/hardware.html
I saw jdb and Janzert in the chatroom confused on whether the server had 2 or 4 GB of RAM, I'm guessing they didn't notice the link was for last year's hardware.
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Re: 2011 Computer Championship
« Reply #14 on: Feb 18th, 2011, 8:35am » |
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ahh, yes I was indeed looking at the hardware for last year. Although I managed to get there, not by following Omar's link above, but by using the first "hardware" link in this year's tournament rules page. Obviously without reading either the sentence it was a part of or the page title once loaded.
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