Hi Ingo,
That's a good question. I'll ask the organiser.
Cheers,
Nick
On 3 September 2016 at 09:07, "Ingo Althöfer" <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> thanks for the announcement.
>
> > KGS has announced that it will be running, for the first time,
> > a "mixed" tournament where both
Hi Nick,
thanks for the announcement.
> KGS has announced that it will be running, for the first time,
> a "mixed" tournament where both humans and bots can play on
> the same terms. This will be held on Saturday and Sunday,
> September 17th/18th.
Will Centaurs be allowed? I.e., humans whi
Michael:
So your question was about the overall time allocation (in this case, 30
minutes of main time plus overtime that comes to 12 seconds a move). Then I
agree, faster time limits favor bots.
For a tournament in which three games are played in a session, you need
fairly fast time limits, and
Nick, Goncalo, et alii:
I was just thinking how fast computers are. For a human, 20 stones in 2
mins is rather quick, 12 secs\move, 12 secs is a long time for a
computer. My thought was byoyomi of, say, 3x20secs or 3x30secs would be
better for a human. After all, haya go in Japan uses 30secs.
On 1 September 2016 at 02:23, Michael Alford wrote:
> Isn't this byoyomi heavily in favor of bots?
>
> Just asking.
>
Not that I'm aware of (and it's not byo-yomi, it's Canadian overtime). What
form of overtime do you think would be less favourable to bots?
Nick
>
> On 8/31/16 10:24 AM, Nick
Isn't this byoyomi heavily in favor of bots?
Just asking.
On 8/31/16 10:24 AM, Nick Wedd wrote:
KGS has announced that it will be running, for the first time, a
"mixed" tournament where both humans and bots can play on the same
terms. This will be held on Saturday and Sunday, September 17th/
KGS has announced that it will be running, for the first time, a "mixed"
tournament where both humans and bots can play on the same terms. This
will be held on Saturday and Sunday, September 17th/18th.
The tournament is in two divisions, suitable for different time zones. Both
are 19x19, No Handi
