Re: [Computer-go] KGS mixed human-and-bot tournaments

Hi Ingo, That's a good question. I'll ask the organiser. Cheers, Nick On 3 September 2016 at 09:07, "Ingo Althöfer" <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > thanks for the announcement. > > > KGS has announced that it will be running, for the first time, > > a "mixed" tournament where

Re: [Computer-go] KGS mixed human-and-bot tournaments

Hi Nick, thanks for the announcement.   > KGS has announced that it will be running, for the first time, > a "mixed" tournament where both humans and bots can play on > the same terms.  This will be held on Saturday and Sunday, > September 17th/18th.   Will Centaurs be allowed? I.e., humans

Re: [Computer-go] KGS mixed human-and-bot tournaments

Nick, Goncalo, et alii: I was just thinking how fast computers are. For a human, 20 stones in 2 mins is rather quick, 12 secs\move, 12 secs is a long time for a computer. My thought was byoyomi of, say, 3x20secs or 3x30secs would be better for a human. After all, haya go in Japan uses

Re: [Computer-go] KGS mixed human-and-bot tournaments

On 1 September 2016 at 02:23, Michael Alford wrote: > Isn't this byoyomi heavily in favor of bots? > > Just asking. > Not that I'm aware of (and it's not byo-yomi, it's Canadian overtime). What form of overtime do you think would be less favourable to bots? Nick > > On