AFter watching that it was a 13x13 tournament I would say that the more probable is that KGS don't know how to handle handicap tournament with small board
2016-05-18 18:30 GMT+02:00 Xavier Combelle <[email protected]>: > 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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