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chessandgo
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #90 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 10:29am » |
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Woohoo, woohoohoo !! 
Here we are buddies ! No one would have ever bet on THIS !!!!!
On the botbasher page, I see a 13 moves record for normal play ... But this one is even more impressive ...
Well done OLTI, Ron Weasley wouldn't disagree that you should be a Griffindor prefect after this excellent spell ...
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #91 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 11:34am » |
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That is why I like Arimaa. I have heard a joke " Your computer beat you at chess?! Try kickboxing! "  With Arimaa there is no need for kickboxing.
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #92 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 11:34am » |
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This is me not disagreeing.
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #93 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 12:27pm » |
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OLTI, thanks for proving that other bots besides Bomb can be thrashed at three-step as well. Sometimes I start to wonder whether these challenges would be tougher against other bots, but it looks like Gnobot and Clueless have their own weaknessess. It's great that you are demonstrating both a breadth and depth of human dominance. Much more satisfying than kickboxing...
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chessandgo
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #94 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 4:24pm » |
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In fact Fritz, I opened a game against BombCC and began kickboxing my laptop; I have to say that it took me only 4 moves of 2 steps to win by K.O. 
Does it count Idaho ?
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #95 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 5:10pm » |
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just a few days gone and when I am back my world is turned upside down ...
great stuff ... keep going 
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #96 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 5:23pm » |
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on Apr 28th, 2006, 4:24pm, chessandgo wrote:In fact Fritz, I opened a game against BombCC and began kickboxing my laptop; I have to say that it took me only 4 moves of 2 steps to win by K.O.
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Only wins recorded in the public record count.
I looked for your KO game and didn't find it:
Quote:mysql> use arimaa;
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mysql> SELECT * FROM GAMES WHERE (wusername = 'chessandgo' OR busername = 'chessandgo') AND termination LIKE '%k.o.%';
Empty set (1.72 sec)
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I think when your laptop breaks the game is probably not recorded; sorry.
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chessandgo
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #97 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 7:12pm » |
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #98 on: Apr 28th, 2006, 11:30pm » |
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #99 on: Apr 29th, 2006, 3:39am » |
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Swynndla you are scaring me.
They have medicine for people with obsession disorders, you know...
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #100 on: Apr 30th, 2006, 1:26am » |
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Evan, how does rule 3 "Earliest game (determined by game end time)" mean the 1st game that won (in that number of moves) or the quickest game (ie same number of moves but less time used on the clock) ... as if it's the latter, then someone might be able to copy the winning entry (at the last moment) and do the moves quick (as they are copying) ?
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #101 on: Apr 30th, 2006, 3:27am » |
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on Apr 30th, 2006, 1:26am, Swynndla wrote:| Evan, how does rule 3 "Earliest game (determined by game end time)" mean the 1st game that won (in that number of moves) or the quickest game (ie same number of moves but less time used on the clock) ... as if it's the latter, then someone might be able to copy the winning entry (at the last moment) and do the moves quick (as they are copying) ? |
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Earliest, not fastest. If someone else does it in the next 24 hours in the same number of turns, you still win: you did it first. To beat you, someone now needs to do it in <=25 moves as gold or <=26 moves as silver.
"As determined by end time" is only so that there's no ambiguity if two players were playing simultaneous games: whoever *finished* first would win, regardless of when they started.
Of course, I will also have to go back to confirm the validity of the win. (make sure that it only used 3 steps per turn).
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #102 on: Apr 30th, 2006, 5:02am » |
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on Apr 24th, 2006, 2:52am, Arimanator wrote:| By the way, what is the current time in New Zealand? is it earlier or later than France? Just curious. |
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Well, if the rules say I have to go by my time zone, I have to finish in one hour (as it's 23:00 30/4 here in New Zealand) ... but if the rules say that the challenge ends by Evan's time zone, then perhaps I can have a few game tomorrow morning (my time) ... Evan?
Edit: the reason that I ask is, for the PotM it counts games in a given month that a player plays in their own timezone, and so the PotM ends for me in one hour (NZ is ahead of everyone). But this challenge was started for everyone at the same universal time (unlike 00:00 for the beginning of the month, which is local time) ... so perhaps it should end at the same universal time for everyone too?
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #103 on: Apr 30th, 2006, 8:00am » |
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on Apr 30th, 2006, 5:02am, Swynndla wrote:| Edit: the reason that I ask is, for the PotM it counts games in a given month that a player plays in their own timezone, and so the PotM ends for me in one hour (NZ is ahead of everyone). |
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Actually, Player of the Month ends at midnight GMT for everyone. Otherwise there would be a few hours when my games would count and yours wouldn't, which wouldn't be fair. Not that I'm going to make up 80+ points in the time zone difference, but it's the principle of the thing...
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IdahoEv
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Re: BotBasher Challenge - April 2006
« Reply #104 on: Apr 30th, 2006, 9:00am » |
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Evan's time zone, as it says on the rules page. April botbash closes in approximately sixteen hours; as I post this, my clock says 8:00am here in California.
The reason I picked my own time zone is because I hate doing arithmetic.
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