Re: [gnugo-devel] Level and time_left

[Gunnar Farneback]

Michael Goetze wrote:
> I am running two GNU Go bots on KGS, and it seems that in recent
> versions it adjusts it's level based on info it gets from the time_left
> GTP command. But... is there anyway to get it to default to a level
> above 10?

The intention is that it should work to just use the --level option. I
see now that's is also necessary to set --max-level to at least as
much. With the appended patch future versions will behave a little
more intuitively.

> FYI, 3.5.4 with Cosmic ("CosmicGnu") is currently rated 10k and 3.5.4
> without cosmic ("GNUbie") is rated 8k, though they have not been played
> for very long yet...

Also on NNGS cosmic seemed to do somewhat worse. It'll be interesting
to see how this looks when more games have been played.

/Gunnar

Index: interface/main.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnugo/gnugo/interface/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.90
diff -u -r1.90 main.c
--- interface/main.c    24 Jan 2004 04:04:56 -0000      1.90
+++ interface/main.c    7 Feb 2004 13:20:18 -0000
@@ -799,6 +799,10 @@
        
       case OPT_LEVEL:
        level = atoi(gg_optarg);
+       if (level > max_level)
+         max_level = level;
+       if (level < min_level)
+         min_level = level;
        break;
 
       case OPT_MIN_LEVEL: