Thanks to all those who voted for various aspects of how KGS Bot
tournaments are run. I assume that everyone who meant to respond has
now done so, and I declare the poll closed. I received ten responses.
The result follow.
(1.)
Do we want to keep separate Formal and Open divisions?
Keep
You must have been tired ...
Continue to use Absolute?
Cheers,
David
On 28, Jan 2008, at 3:56 AM, Nick Wedd wrote:
A majority for Absolute, a minority for byo-yomi, and no-one for
Canadian. I shall continue to use Canadian.
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Wedd
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I have not yet updated the page
http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/future.html, I shall do so today.
I have updated that page. I have also spotted a problem - now the board
sizes go in a 2-cycle, and the timezones also go in a
It is two years and six months since I chose the format that we use for
the monthly bot tournaments on KGS. Since then, things have changed:
UCT has been invented, processing power has increased, pondering has
been implemented in more programs, and CGOS is running. I get
occasional requests
Hi,
My vote would be to keep everything like it is. Maybe use round robin
when the number of participants is close to the number of planned
rounds. Also, don't hesitate to make the time control shorter if it
would be necessary to fit enough rounds within a reasonable time, so we
can play
Hello All,
First, Thanks to Nick for doing these tournaments and for asking what
we would like.
Sticking with most of the replies I have seen so far, I will send my
votes on the form directly to Nick, but will comment here on a few
points.
First, I am wondering about the 2-out-of-3
On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Nick Wedd wrote:
The Formal/Open restriction was created to encourage commercial
programs to compete. These programs' authors were wary of entering
them in events in which they might have to play a whole bunch of
GNU Go versions, so the Formal division was set
