Yes, as noted in lifein19x19.com, apparently this is an announcement of yet-unnamed 13x13 tournament open to pros, amateurs and bots to be held in the Spring, 2016.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20151223/k10010350821000.html (Japanese) Nihon Kiin will be holding a 13x13 Go tournament open to professionals, amateurs and computer programs in the Spring of next year. Preliminaries will be held with about 170 participants total. 4 participant slots will be reserved for computer programs in the amateur preliminaries. (No mention of pro preliminaries. Possibly not decided if there will be one.) Computer programs will proceed to the main round to face professionals if they qualify in the top 2. According to Nihon Kiin, this will be the first time computer programs are allowed to participate in a professional Go tournament. (The rest of the article briefly describes the differences in strengths of Chess, Shogi and Go software.) There have been no official release on this from Nihon Kiin as of the end of business day today as far as I could tell. With the huge participation ( http://jsb.cs.uec.ac.jp/~igo/eng/participant.html) in the UEC Cup / Densei Sen in March, this tournament will boost public awareness on computer Go. Tokumoto On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Stefan Kaitschick < stefan.kaitsch...@hamburg.de> wrote: > According to a post in this forum it's 13*13. > > http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12553 > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > Computer-go@computer-go.org > http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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