Hi Nick, I found that KGS sends wrong time_left commands for the byo-yomi time control. For instance, in this TCGA 13x13 computer Go tournament with time setting 0:00+3x0:12(byo-yomi), Fuego received the command from the server
time_left w 12 3 which means 12 secs are remained for 3 moves, as the specification of GTP (see http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/gtp2-spec-draft2/gtp2-spec.html ) says time_left argument *color time stones* *color* - Color for which the information applies. *time*- Number of seconds remaining. *stones* - Number of stones remaining. But it should be something like time_left w 12 1 because there are 3 periods of 12 secs remained and in each period the engine can fully utilize that 12 secs. As a result of the wrong commands, Fuego abnormally played very fast (2-3 secs per move) and I had to hard-coded Fuego in order to ignore time_left. I know that in the current GTP standard there is no way to describe the byo-yomi time system, but is it a bug of KGS or did I misunderstand something? Thanks, Aja
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