Give tournament time length estimate to help users pick useful settings

[simondorfman]

Add two information boxes to the tournament screen:

1. the total number of games that will be played in a tournament, given the tournament settings currently selected. In the example screenshot above, this number would be 7500.
2. an estimate of how long the tournament will take with some explanations for the calculation. Something like this: "Assuming each AI uses the full time allowed each turn, and the average length of each game is 17 turns (excluding growth turns), the tournament will end in 1.05 weeks."

This formula seems very wrong at predicting actual tournament times, but something along these lines: (7500 games 17 turns 5 seconds) = 637500 seconds (simplified to a most useful time unit of weeks in this case)

[simondorfman]

On this old iMac, the above settings take about 9 hours, 49 minutes. I'll try a couple of other timings to help come up with a useful estimation.

[skotz]

Also just remembered that multiple games run in parallel, so you'd have to consider number of cores on the machine.

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On this old iMac, the above settings take about 9 hours, 49 minutes. I'll try a couple of other timings to help come up with a useful estimation.

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[simondorfman]

Ah that makes sense, this iMac has a 3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7.

[simondorfman]

With 10 seconds per move (instead of 5), this took about 20 hours, 26 minutes.