On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:41 PM, David Fotland wrote:
You need to specify how pairings will be made and how ties will be
broken, etc. I attached the announcement from one of the US
computer go tournaments I ran at the go congress as an example.
The short story is "as in the monthly KGS tournaments". Nick W. or
Bill S., can you provide more info here?
Will the games be played on KGS using network connections from the
contest site, or will you provide a referee program? If the games
are played on KGS, why do people have to drag their computers to
Portland?
We will use KGS. There are three reasons for having competitors
present in person:
1) As an anti-cheating measure. Since there is money at stake, we
don't want to make it trivial for a strong human player to masquerade
as a program.
2) As a sort of scientific conference, giving Go programmers an
opportunity to network in a way that is not possible over email.
3) To create an event on which the media can report.
Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
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