The October 2010 KGS computer Go tournament will be on Sunday October
10th, starting at 08:00 UTC and ending at 18:00 UTC.
Note that this is longer than usual, in response to requests. Only
people living in Europe and west Asia will normally be awake for the
whole tournament. I will be awake for the whole tournament myself, but
I do not intend to watch every round, so if something goes wrong I may
not be there to try to fix it.
It will be a 20-round Swiss with 19x19 boards, 14 minutes each of main
time, and Canadian Overtime of 25 moves in 60 seconds. It will use
Chinese rules with 7.5 points komi. There are details at
http://www.gokgs.com/tournInfo.jsp?id=537. The overtime setting is
intended to avoid losses on time through netlag.
I would have preferred to set it to 30 rounds, but the KGS tournament
creation software does not allow more than 20 rounds. I shall write to
wms asking for a simple change to allow for more than 20 rounds.
Registration is now open. To enter, please read and follow the
instructions at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/how/index.html . The rules
are given at http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/rules.html . Your bot need not
be strong to enter, indeed weak and new bots are particularly welcome.
Please send your registration email (with the words "KGS Tournament
Registration" in the title) to me at maproom at gmail dot com (converted
to a valid address in the obvious way).
Nick
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