Aja,
It is possible to handle Japanese byo-yomi correctly, but only if you
support the
kgs-time_settings command. This way you can interpret correctly the
time_left
command sent by KGS. See the comment field misused by kgs in timeinfo.c
in the pachi sources.
Jean-loup
2012/6/30 Aja Huang ajahu...@gmail.com
Hi Nick,
I found that KGS sends wrong time_left commands for the byo-yomi time
control. For instance, in this TCGA 13x13 computer Go tournament with time
setting 0:00+3x0:12(byo-yomi), Fuego received the command from the server
time_left w 12 3
which means 12 secs are remained for 3 moves, as the specification of GTP
(see http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/gtp2-spec-draft2/gtp2-spec.html
) says
time_left
argument *color time stones*
*color* - Color for which the information applies.
*time*- Number of seconds remaining.
*stones* - Number of stones remaining.
But it should be something like
time_left w 12 1
because there are 3 periods of 12 secs remained and in each period the
engine can fully utilize that 12 secs. As a result of the wrong commands,
Fuego abnormally played very fast (2-3 secs per move) and I had to
hard-coded Fuego in order to ignore time_left. I know that in the current
GTP standard there is no way to describe the byo-yomi time system, but is
it a bug of KGS or did I misunderstand something?
Thanks,
Aja
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