Results

Our server has been operational since September 1997; we have collected the results of all games between agents and humans; the system is still running. The results presented in this section are based on the first 525 days of data (204,093 games). A total 4037 human players and 3512 agent players have participated, each of them having faced just some of all potential opponents (fig. 3.6). The ``aftermath'' section (3.6) discusses a new configuration of the system and the results obtained with it.

  

Figure 3.6: Who has played whom: A dot marks every human-robot pair who have played each other at least once. Both populations are sorted by the date of their first appearance. The long vertical lines correspond to robots that have been part of the population for a long time, and thus have played against most newcomers.