According to https://www.gokgs.com/help/_fr_FR/tournMcMahon.html McMahon avoid high handicap. You could also setup a swiss with handicap tournament
2016-05-18 18:06 GMT+02:00 Nick Wedd <[email protected]>: > I had been persuaded, by postings to this list, to run the monthly KGS bot > tournaments with a McMahon division. > > I now think that this probably won't work. I have run a test McMahon > tournament. No handicaps were assigned, or reported in the results. This > *may* have been because none of the entrants had a confirmed rating (one > had a ? rating, four were unrated), but I doubt it. Even if all the > players were treated as having the same initial rating (probably 8k, where > I had set the lower bar), handicaps should have been used by the final > rounds. > > You can see the results at > http://www.gokgs.com/tournEntrants.jsp?sort=n&id=1040 > > I will be willing to run another test tournament, today or tomorrow, if > someone can provide a "Ranked Robot" to help with the test. It should be > able to beat gnugo3pt8 consistently, and should preferably be willing to > play 9x9 Go. All you need to do is leave it running on KGS in tournament > mode, and email me with its name. I have left gnugo3pt8 running, to > restore its confirmed rating. > > Nick > -- > Nick Wedd [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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