Next Sunday is the KGS October bot tournament, on 19x19 boards. I already have entries from break MoGo (using the account CzechBot) Orego pachi GNU Go (using the account PNUGo) Fuego (using the account PueGo) I will continue to accept entries until shortly before play starts. If official versions of MoGo, GNU Go, and Fuego enter, I will remove the unofficial versions listed above.
I will be away from home for most, possibly all, of the time between Monday evening and the tournament, so if you want to enter it is important to use my address maproom at gmail dot com . Emails sent to me at the address from which I am now posting may not be read until after the tournament is over. Nick >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 -- Nick Wedd [email protected] _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
